Quotes by Margaret Fuller

The following are quotes from Margaret Fuller:

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.

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.

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

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

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

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

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.

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