25 quotes found
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
“Nature provides exceptions to every rule.”
“It was thy kiss Love that made me immortal.”
“What a difference it makes to come home to a child!”
“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.”
“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 i...”
“This book began with the assertion that Margaret Fuller's life was her most remarkable creation. It is just possible, however, that her most wonderful creations may still lie in the future. Fuller'...”
“Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.”
“Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.”
“A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.”
“It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair ...”
“The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.”
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”
“Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly ma...”
“Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.”
“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...”
“It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.”
“Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.”
“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”
“Would that ... a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honour become identical.”
