Quotes by Martineau, Harriet

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be >>

But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from th >>

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare. >>

Quotations about Law and Lawyers

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke. >>

Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forwa >>

Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eye >>

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

Martineau, Harriet