Harriet Martineau

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

If there is any country on earth where the course of true love may be expected to run smooth, it is America.

The American people are too busy to be religious.

We are not responsible for our feelings, as we are for our principles.

The only true history of a country is that of its private life.

Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

The mind which is not kept up to its work by the love of truth, will soon sink into indolence.

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

The human race has undergone vicissitudes, and will undergo more.

Prejudices are the chains forged by our ancestors.

The best and most enduring friendships are those founded on mutual respect.

In America, the young are always ready to give to those who are older.

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of a few.

The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind.

Women have as much right to intellectual culture as men.

The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, lets in new light through chinks that time hath made.

I would not be a part of a society that would do without women.

The press is the fourth estate, but it should be the servant of truth.

Happiness is the only sanction of life.

The world is full of wonders, but none so great as the human mind.