Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

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Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.

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The book of Job is pure Arab poetry of the highest and most antique cast.

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You talk about making this article cheaper by reducing its price in the market from 8 d. to 6 d. But suppose, in so doing, you have rendered your country weaker against a foreign foe; suppose you have demoralized thousands of your fellow-countrymen, and have sown discontent between one class of society and another, your article is tolerably dear, I take it, after all.

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What! Did Sir W[alter] R[aleigh] believe that a male and female ounce (and, if so, why not two tigers and lions, etc?) would have produced, in a course of generations, a cat, or a cat a lion? This is Darwinizing with a vengeance.

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I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book.

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Poetry: the best words in the best order.

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For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with the moral and intellectual cultivation of the species, always supporting and often leading he way.

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Shakespeare knew the human mind, and its most minute and intimate workings, and he never introduces a word, or a thought, in vain or out of place; if we do not understand him, it is our own fault.

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How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved at the prospect of our own End for who sincerely pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, or a fit of the Gout in a lusty Good-liver of 50?

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

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Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

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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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All nature seems at work.

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The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.

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As there is much beast and some devil in man, so is there some angel and some God in him. The beast and the devil may be conquered, but in this life never destroyed.

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A sight to dream of, not to tell!

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

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Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead.

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