There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.
Margaret FullerLife is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.
Margaret FullerIt 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
Margaret FullerIn order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.
Margaret FullerThe public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.
Margaret FullerIf any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up.
Margaret FullerI know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.
Margaret FullerA house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.
Margaret FullerArt can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Margaret FullerDrudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.
Margaret FullerThis is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.
Margaret FullerI am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.
Margaret FullerHarmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
Margaret FullerThe critic is beneath the maker, but is his needed friend. The critic is not a base caviler, but the younger brother of genius. Next to invention is the power of interpreting invention; next to beauty the power of appreciating beauty. And of making others appreciate it.
Margaret FullerWho does not observe the immediate glow and security that is diffused over the life of woman, before restless or fretful, by engaging in gardening, building, or the lowest department of art? Here is something that is not routine--something that draws forth life towards the infinite.
Margaret Fuller... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.
Margaret FullerBe 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.
Margaret FullerThe man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.
Margaret FullerOur friends should be our incentives to right, but not only our guiding, but our prophetic, stars. To love by right is much, to love by faith is more; both are the entire love, without which heart, mind, and soul cannot be alike satisfied. We love and ought to love one another, not merely for the absolute worth of each, but on account of a mutual fitness of temporary character.
Margaret FullerMan is not made for society, but society is made for man. No institution can be good which does not tend to improve the individual.
Margaret FullerTo one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.
Margaret FullerIt does not follow because many books are written by persons born in America that there exists an American literature. Books which imitate or represent the thoughts and life of Europe do not constitute an American literature. Before such can exist, an original idea must animate this nation and fresh currents of life must call into life fresh thoughts along the shore.
Margaret FullerGenius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.
Margaret FullerMan tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
Margaret FullerThe character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
Margaret FullerWhen the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.
Margaret FullerIt seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.
Margaret FullerI fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues. I am not festive, though contented. When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn.
Margaret Fuller