Margaret Fuller

Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm.

Margaret Fuller

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

Margaret Fuller

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

Margaret Fuller

I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.

Margaret Fuller

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Margaret Fuller

I stand in the sunny noon of life. Objects no longer glitter in the dews of morning, neither are yet softened by the shadows of evening.

Margaret Fuller

It 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 Fuller

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

Margaret Fuller

Man 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 Fuller

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

Margaret Fuller