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

— Margaret Fuller, Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 (1844), "Good Sense"

About Margaret Fuller

1810 – 1850

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

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

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

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

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”