We are not responsible for our feelings, as we are for our principles and actions. ... Our care, then, should be to look to our principles, and to avoid all anxiety about our emotions. Their nature can never be wrong where our course of action is right, and for their degree we are not responsible.
Harriet MartineauMy business in life has been to think and learn, and to speak out with absolute freedom what I have thought and learned. The freedom is itself a positive and never-failing enjoyment to me, after the bondage of my early life.
Harriet Martineau[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.
Harriet MartineauMen who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
Harriet MartineauThe highest condition of the religious sentiment is when. . . the worshiper not only sees God everywhere, but sees nothing which is not full of God.
Harriet Martineau