Margaret Fuller
I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.Collection: Heartless
The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.Collection: Three
Man can never come up to his ideal standard. It is the nature of the immortal spirit to raise that standard higher and higher as it goes from strength to strength, still upward and onward. The wisest and greatest men are ever the most modest.Collection: Men
Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.Collection: Keys
Beware the mediocrity that threatens middle age, its limitation of thought and interest, its dullness of fancy, its too external life, and mental thinness.Collection: Age
The man of science dissects the statement, verifies the facts, and demonstrates connection even where he cannot its purpose.Collection: Science
Reverence the highest, have patience with the lowest. Let this day's performance of the meanest duty be thy religion. Are the stars too distant, pick up the pebble that lies at thy feet, and from it learn the all.Collection: Patience
There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.Collection: Book
Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.Collection: Flames
In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.Collection: Hands
As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life.Collection: Heart
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 energyCollection: Independent
The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.Collection: Men
Plants of great vigor will almost always struggle into blossom, despite impediments. But there should be encouragement, and a free genial atmosphere for those of more timid sort, fair play for each in its own kind.Collection: Encouragement
Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.Collection: Mother
I accept the universe!Collection: Acceptance
Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.Collection: Past
I find no intellect comparable to my ownCollection: Intellect
The 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.Collection: Brother
If 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.Collection: Fall
there is such a rebound from parental influence that it generally seems that the child makes use of the directions given by the parent only to avoid the prescribed path.Collection: Children
There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see I think that is enough to say about them.Collection: Book
What a difference it makes to come home to a child!Collection: Children
But the golden-rod is one of the fairy, magical flowers; it grows not up to seek human love amid the light of day, but to mark to the discerning what wealth lies hid in the secret caves of earth.Collection: Lying
Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses.Collection: Class
Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.Collection: Mistake