“There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes.”

— Margaret Fuller, Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1 March 1838, The Letters of Margaret Fuller vol. I (1983)

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!”

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

“The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living.”

“My motto, As I live and learn, is: Dig And Be Dug In Return.”

“I think that the reason to live is to learn.”

“The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool.”

“To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.”

“Let us learn from the lips of death the lessons of life.”