Words matter. These are the best Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions form our true honor.
A man’s as old as he’s feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
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 principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.
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.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
No one does anything from a single motive.
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.
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.
Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
General principles… are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.
Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
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.
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.
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.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Good and bad men are less than they seem.
Friendship is a sheltering tree.
