Margaret Fuller

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

Margaret Fuller

All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.

Margaret Fuller

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

Margaret Fuller

Amid all your duties, keep some hours to yourself.

Margaret Fuller

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

Margaret Fuller

As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life.

Margaret Fuller

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.

Margaret Fuller

Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.

Margaret Fuller

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

Margaret Fuller

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

Margaret Fuller