Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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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We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.

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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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For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel's only.

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Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

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The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.

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Rage is essentially vulgar.

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Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

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

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Painting is the intermediate somewhat between a thought and a thing.

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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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Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

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

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The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

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Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips and Cuttings, integra et in toto! She is sure to get the better of Lady MIND in the long run, and to take her revenge too transforms our To Day into a Canvass dead-colored to receive the dull featureless Portait of Yesterday.

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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals, we may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.

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

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

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Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

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Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

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