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

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

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.”

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

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

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.”

“Not to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love.”

“I call upon you, young men, to obey your heart, and be the nobility of this land.”

“Give all to love; obey thy heart.”