Margaret Fuller Mind Quotations

Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

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

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

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

As to marriage, I think the intercourse of heart and mind may be fully enjoyed without entering into this partnership of daily life.

The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

All greatness affects different minds, each in its own particular kind, and the variations of testimony mark the truth of feeling.

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