A biography for Margaret Fullerhasn’t been written yet.
“I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.”
“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.”
“Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.”
“Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.”
“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.”
“What a difference it makes to come home to a child!”