158 Quotes by Margaret Fuller

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...

The Greeks saw everything in forms which we are trying to ascertain as law, and classify as cause.

I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun to gather it.

Nature seems to have poured forth her riches so without calculation, merely to mark the fullness of her joy.

There exists in the minds of men a tone of feeling toward women as toward slaves.

We doubt not the destiny of our country that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.

Be what you would seem to be.

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.

We cannot have expression till there is something to be expressed.