Country Quote by 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…

— Harriet Martineau

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

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

it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.

— Harriet Martineau

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

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

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

[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

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

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

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

Moral excellence has no regard to classes and professions.

— Harriet Martineau