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
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. – 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
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. – Margaret Fuller
And there is monologue disguised as dialogue, in which two or more men, meeting in space, speak each with himself in strangely tortuous and circuitous ways and yet imagine they have escaped the torment of being thrown back on their own resources. – Martin Buber (1878—1965), translated from German