158 Quotes by Margaret Fuller

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.

Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.

The persons whom you have idolized can never, in the end, be ungrateful, and, probably, at the time of retreat they still do justice to your heart. But, so long as you must draw persons too near you, a temporary recoil is sure to follow. It is the character striving to defend itself from a heating and suffocating action upon it.

Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.

Tremble not before the free man, but before the slave who has chains to break.

Everywhere the fatal spirit of imitation, of reference to European standards, penetrates and threatens to blight whatever of original growth might adorn the soil.

Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.

How many persons must there be who cannot worship alone since they are content with so little.