Quotes By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

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.

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

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

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

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.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.

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.