Quotes by Margaret Sarah Fuller

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.

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

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.

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

Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

A home is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not so constituted that they can live without expansion. If they do not get it in one way, they must in another, or perish.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind as harrowing and planting those of the earth.