Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it the widest circulation that newspapers and magazines, penny and halfpenny, can afford.

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Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.

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One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.

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Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.

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I believe that obstinacy, or the dread of control and discipline, arises not so much from self-willedness as from a conscious defect of voluntary power; as foolhardiness is not seldom the disguise of conscious timidity.

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Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!

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Sublimity is Hebrew by birth.

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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 single thought is that which it is from other thoughts as a wave of the sea takes its form and shape from the waves which precede and follow it.

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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from, as pickpockets are observed commonly to walk with their hands in their breeches' pockets.

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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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I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge; they will take the law from the Judge, whether they like it or do not like it, and apply it honestly to the facts before them.

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

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Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.

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Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

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Taste is the intermediate faculty which connects the active with the passive powers of our nature, the intellect with the senses; and its appointed function is to elevate the images of the latter, while it realizes the ideas of the former.

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Poor little Foal of an oppressed race! I love the languid patience of thy face.

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Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.

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