Quotes By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

No one does anything from a single motive.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.