Margaret Fuller

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

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

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.

Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

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

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

Man tells his aspiration in his God but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

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

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.