Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

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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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The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

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I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.

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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

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

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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

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To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

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Mr. Mum's Rudesheimer And the church of St. Geryon Are the two things alone That deserve to be known In the body-and-soul-stinking town of Cologne.

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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

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It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

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All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

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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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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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...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand.

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The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

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A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.

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We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

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And in today already walks tomorrow.

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Trochee trips from long to short; From long to long in solemn sort Slow Spondee stalks.

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