Harriet Martineau

"We cannot live in isolation; we are interdependent upon one another in all aspects of life."

"The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake is the highest form of human endeavor."

"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."

"The true use of life is to use it; to leave the world not exactly as we found it."

"One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they underestimate the importance of their daily duties."

"If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives."

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

"Beware of the prevalence of cant; nothing is so apt to demoralize as false pretense."

"Life is too short to be little."

"Without a belief in something, one cannot act upon principle."

"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without."

"One may believe in a policy without approving of the men who carry it out."

"The society which has removed a man's natural motive to seek his own provision has created a new obligation to him."

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, and a rapture in the lonely shore."

"Art is one of the few serious things in the world."

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome."

"To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties."

"The remedy for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

"The more a person owns, the more they are owned by their possessions."

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

"The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education."

"To be happy, one must cultivate the mind and exercise the body."

"The beauty of a woman is not in her clothes or her figure, but in her character."

"Silence may be golden, but it can also indicate a lack of courage to speak truth."

"It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness."

"The power of understanding symbols is the source of human superiority."

"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."

"If we would have men to work, we must teach them to aspire."

"The wisest mind has something yet to learn."

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."