“Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.”
— Margaret Fuller
“It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.”
— Margaret Fuller
“Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.”
— Margaret Fuller
“Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.”
— Margaret Fuller
“Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.”
— Margaret Fuller
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”
— Margaret Fuller
“The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.”
— Margaret Fuller
“It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance.”
— Margaret Fuller
“A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.”
— Margaret Fuller
“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.”
— Margaret Fuller
“Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.”
— Margaret Fuller
“Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.”
— Margaret Fuller
“I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.”
— Margaret Fuller
“It was thy kiss Love that made me immortal.”
— Margaret Fuller
“Would that … a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honour become identical.”
— Margaret Fuller
“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”
— Margaret Fuller
“Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.”
— Margaret Fuller
“Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.”
— Margaret Fuller
“What a difference it makes to come home to a child!”
— Margaret Fuller
“Nature provides exceptions to every rule.”
— Margaret Fuller
“Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day’s performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.”
— Margaret Fuller
“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.”
– Margaret Fuller
“It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.”
– Margaret Fuller
“Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.”
– Margaret Fuller
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
– Margaret Fuller
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”
– Margaret Fuller
“Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.”
– Margaret Fuller
“Be what you would seem to be – or, if you’d like it put more simply – a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”
– Margaret Fuller
“A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.”
– Margaret Fuller
“Man tells his aspiration in his God but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.”
– Margaret Fuller