158 Quotes by Margaret Fuller

Certainly I do not wish that instead of these masters I had read baby books, written down to children, and with such ignorant dullness that they blunt the sense and corrupt the tastes of the still plastic human being. But I do wish that I had read no books at all till later - that I had lived with toys, and played in the open air. Children should not cull the fruits of reflection and observation early, but expand in the sun, and let thoughts come to them. They should not through books antedate their actual experiences ...

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

Wine is earth's answer to the sun.

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

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

The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.

It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

I accept the universe!

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