[On being deaf:] We must struggle for whatever may be had, without encroaching on the comfort of others.
Harriet MartineauI am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.
Harriet MartineauWhen once experience taught me that I could work when I chose, and within a quarter of an hour of my determining to do so, I was relieved, in a great measure, from those embarrassments and depressions which I see afflicting many an author who waits for a mood instead of summoning it, and is the sport, instead of the master, of his own impressions and ideas.
Harriet MartineauThe lesson taught us by these kindly commentators on my present experience is that dogmatic faith compels the best minds and hearts to narrowness and insolence.
Harriet Martineauit is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering.
Harriet Martineau[On being deaf:] We can never get beyond the necessity of keeping in full view the worst and the best that can be made of our lot. The worst is, either to sink under the trial, or to be made callous by it. The best is, to be as wise as is possible under a great disability, and as happy as is possible under a great privation.
Harriet Martineau