Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

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

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To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.

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A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.

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Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain.

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If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.

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It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

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Nature has her proper interest; and he will know what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.

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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?

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A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

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The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.

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Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

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There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

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

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

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He prayeth best who loveth best.

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Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

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The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

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As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

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