Margaret Fuller Quotes

What a difference it makes to come home to a child!

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

A home is no home unless it contains food and the 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 in one way, they must in another, or perish.

There are two modes of criticism. One which… crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also prey to insects or have suffered by drouth. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its soil may be a pretty, graceful […]

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.