Harriet Martineau

"The more we know, the more we feel our ignorance."

"Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows nothing of."

"Once confirm an evil habit and it becomes your master."

"The happiest women are those who have much to do."

"The essence of education is its use; the acquirement of knowledge for practical purposes."

"Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience."

"There is nothing so delightful as the hearing or the speaking of truth."

"If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions."

"The surest way to be always well is to keep well informed."

"What office is there which involves more responsibility than that of a mother?"

"Every heart has its secret sorrows; the world knows nothing of our blues and our bleak mid-winter."

"I wished to have leisure to read; I liked to work with my hands; I had a love of nature."

"No more tears now: I will think upon revenge."

"The only condition on which a person can claim immunity from punishment is that of absolute ignorance."

"Genuine knowledge consists in knowing things, not words."

"The strength of a nation lies not in its armies but in its education."

"To be happy one must cultivate steadiness of temper and discipline of mind."

"The misery which men endure from intemperance far exceeds what they suffer from all other causes."

"I write what I think; I think what I believe is true."

"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved."

"The most powerful weapon against war is peace."

"Liberty is the condition of growth; without liberty there is no progress."

"There is no greater enemy to progress than the tyranny of custom."

"Art should beautify the soul and improve the heart."

"In the study of nature we have not merely facts to collect; we have principles to discover."

"A grateful heart is a happy heart."

"Power gained through evil deeds is not true power at all."

"The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable."

"Independence is not immunity from responsibility."

"To be of use to the world is the only way to be happy."