Best Quotes by Harriet Martineau (Top 8)

  1. You had 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.
  2. Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare.
  3. Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.
  4. What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
  5. 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.
  6. We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.
  7. Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit.
  8. Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.