Wherever the appearance of a conventional aristocracy exists in America, it must arise from wealth, as it cannot from birth. An aristocracy of mere wealth is vulgar everywhere. In a republic, it is vulgar in the extreme. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as a mere disease? or with shame as a mere weakness? or with levity as a mere accident? whereas… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
School is no place of education for any children whatever till their minds are well put in action. This is the work which has… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I wrote because I could not help it. There was something that I wanted to say, and I said it: that was all. The… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country ... There is not even any systematic instruction given on… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
[I] wish that the land-tax went a little more according to situation than it does. 'Tis really ridiculous, how one has to pay five… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
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