Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as a mere disease? or with shame as a mere weakness? or with levity as a mere accident? whereas it is a great mystery and a great necessity, lying at the foundation of human existence, morality, and happiness,--mysterious, universal, inevitable as death.
Harriet Martineau. . . is it to be understood that the principles of the Declaration of Independence bear no relation to half of the human race?
Harriet MartineauGoodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.
Harriet MartineauMen who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
Harriet Martineau