Margaret Fuller Quotes

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.

The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.

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.

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

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

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

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

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.