Quotes by

Margaret Fuller

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

Be what you would seem to be – or, if youd 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

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

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

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

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

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it. – Margaret Fuller

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