"If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the othe…"

"For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen … tha…"

"Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a …"

"What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefo…"

"What a visitation! Miss Martineau is the more formidable friend, however—Mrs. Jameson will be contented with a little…"

"Of all these ornamented human creatures the one I take most delight in is Harriet Martineau. The horrid picture in Fr…"

"Miss Martineau had been extremely kind to me... Well, she is the sort of woman that would have made a good matron in …"

"After all, she is a trump—the only Englishwoman that possesses thoroughly the art of writing."

"I hope you have contradicted the story of my writing to Miss Martineau. I cannot understand how it originated except …"

"He [Hans Christian Andersen] met a deaf lady with a long ear-trumpet at a garden party; she wrote "political things,"…"