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

— Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845)

About Margaret Fuller

1810 – 1850

American journalist and women's rights advocate, author of "Woman in the Nineteenth Century".

“Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart!”

“All around us lies what we neither understand nor use.”

“I never lived, that I remember, what you call a common natural day.”

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”

“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.”

“Home to people like me is not a place but all places, all places except the one we happen to be in at the moment.”

“My house, my house, though thou art small, thou art to me the Escurial.”

“Domestic happiness, thou only bliss of Paradise that has surviv'd the fall!”

“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.”