Quotes By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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.

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.

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.

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.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

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

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

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

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

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

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

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.

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.

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

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

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

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

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.