Margaret Fuller Quotes

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

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.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

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.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

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

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

It was thy kiss Love that made me immortal.

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.