Harriet Martineau Quotes

"If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power."
-Harriet Martineau in Civilization quotes.

"Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts."
-Harriet Martineau

"There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land."
-Harriet Martineau

"Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry."
-Harriet Martineau

"What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?"
-Harriet Martineau

"A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties."
-Harriet Martineau

"You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow."
-Harriet Martineau

"Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it."
-Harriet Martineau

"I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are."
-Harriet Martineau