Quotes By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

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.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

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

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

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

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

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

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

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.

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.