Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

~ Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller Read Reader Reading

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

~ Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller Exceptions Nature Rules

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.

~ Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller Fuller Growth Inspiration Transcendentalism

Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.

~ Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller Differences Unity

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

~ Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller Pressure Diamonds

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

~ Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller Self Confidence

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

~ Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller Truth Dreamer Understand

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

~ Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller Men Live Living

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

~ Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller Home Fire Mind

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

Margaret Fuller Men Chance Liberty

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

~ Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller Spiritual Believe

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

~ Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller Light You Others

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

Margaret Fuller Man Woman Two

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

~ Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller Life Interior Fact

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

Margaret Fuller Life Best Honesty

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

~ Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller Human Force Human Being

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

~ Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller Love Good Two