Margaret Fuller Giving Quotations

If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up.

Give me truth; cheat me by no illusion.

In order that she may be able to give her hand with dignity, she must be able to stand alone.