Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

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Love is the admiration and cherishing of the amiable qualities of the beloved person, upon the condition of yourself being the object of their action.

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The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.

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Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast.

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Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng

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Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind.

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Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.

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

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The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.

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Law grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.

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In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I counted two-and-seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The River Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth whash the river Rhine.

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The poet is the man made to solve the riddle of the universe who brings the whole soul of man into activity.

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I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.

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

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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

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Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our never-ceasing effort to make people think, not feel.

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Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

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Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

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The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

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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.

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