Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

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Where true Love burns Desire is Love's pure flame; It is the reflex of our earthly frame, That takes its meaning from the nobler part, And but translates the language of the heart.

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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

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This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

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A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

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You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.

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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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And to be wroth with one we love…Doth work like madness in the brain.

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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

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

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Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition.

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Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

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If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

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Conscience is the pulse of reason

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He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.

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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

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

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The most general definition of beauty ... Multeity in Unity.

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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.

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