Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

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The fair breeze blew, The white foam flew, And the forrow followed free. We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.

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There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

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I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.

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

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Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

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Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning too.

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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

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I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and all the countless Believers-even (strange to say) among Xtians-of Man's having progressed from an Ouran Outang state-so contrary to all History, to all Religion, nay, to all Possibility-to have affirmed a Fall in some sense.

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No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

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Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!

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The Eighth Commandment was not made for bards.

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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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It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.

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Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

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A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

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In philosophy equally as in poetry it is the highest and most useful prerogative of genius to produce the strongest impressions of novelty, while it rescues admitted truths from the neglect caused by the very circumstance of their universal admission.

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