Quotes from Margaret Fuller

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

It 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 its shores.

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

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

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

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.

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

Accursed be he who willingly saddens an immortal spirit---doomed to infamy in later, wiser ages, doomed in future stages of his own being to deadly penance, only short of death.

Yet, by men in this country, as by the Jews, when Moses was leading them to the promised land, everything has been done that inherited depravity could do, to hinder the promise of Heaven from its fulfilment. The cross, here as elsewhere, has been planted only to be blasphemed by cruelty and fraud.