Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

A woman's friendship borders more closely on love than man's. Men affect each other in the reflection of noble or friendly acts; whilst women ask fewer proofs and more signs and expressions of attachment.

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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

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That gracious thing, made up of tears and light.

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And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

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How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

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Boys and girls, And women, that would groan to see a child Pull off an insect's leg, all read of war, The best amusement for our morning meal.

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How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance.

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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:--for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.

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If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

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

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History has a point of view; it cannot be all things to all people.

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Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

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A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.

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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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To carry feelings of childhood into the powers of adulthood, to combine the child's sense of wonder and novelty with the appearances which every day for years has rendered familiar, this is the character and privilege of genius, and one of the marks which distinguish it from talent.

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A rogue is a roundabout fool.

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Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.

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A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

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