. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race? Harriet Martineau More Quotes by Harriet Martineau More Quotes From 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 marriage love men The Penny Post will do more for the circulation of ideas, for the fostering of domestic affections, for the humanizing of the mass generally, than any other single measure that our national wit can devise. Harriet Martineau affection pennies ideas Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts. Harriet Martineau literature heart men Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right, for that shall bring a man peace at the last. Harriet Martineau heed lasts men 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 pieces land mind 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 creative vices law During the present interval between the feudal age and the coming time, when life and its occupations will be freely thrown open to women as to men, the condition of the female working classes is such that if its sufferings were but made known, emotions of horror and shame would tremble through the whole of society. Harriet Martineau suffering class men I romanced internally about early death till it was too late to die early. Harriet Martineau early-death late too-late This noble word [women], spirit-stirring as it passes over English ears, is in America banished, and 'ladies' and 'females' substituted: the one to English taste mawkish and vulgar; the other indistinctive and gross. Harriet Martineau female noble america I wrote because I could not help it. There was something that I wanted to say, and I said it: that was all. The fame and the money and the usefulness might or might not follow. It was not by my endeavor if they did. Harriet Martineau fame helping might 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 aristocracy republic america While feeling far less injured by toil than my friends took for granted I must be, I yet was always aware of the strong probability that my life would end as the lives of hard literary workers usually end, - in paralysis, with months or years of imbecility. Harriet Martineau strong feelings years I think that few people are aware how early it is right to respect the modesty of an infant. Harriet Martineau modesty people thinking It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. Harriet Martineau aquariums essentials literature There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties. . . Harriet Martineau faculty universe theory The last degree of honesty has always been, and is still considered incompatible with statesmanship. To hunger and thirst after righteousness has been naturally, as it were, supposed a disqualification for affairs. Harriet Martineau hunger-and-thirst honesty politics The last thing it [government] ought to do is to ground its proceedings on the ignorance of the people, - to yield them that which they will hereafter despise the donors for granting them. Harriet Martineau yield government ignorance 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 argument weakness inspirational It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring. It is characteristic of genius to break up the artificial arrangements of conventionalism, and to view mankind in true perspective, in their gradations of inherent rather than of adventitious worth. Genius is therefore essentially democratic, and has always been so. Harriet Martineau hopeful perspective views There is no death to those who perfectly love-only disappearance, which in time may be borne. Harriet Martineau disappearance grief may
