Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

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I attended [Sir Humphry] Davy's lectures to renew my stock of metaphors.

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Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

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And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps, Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the soul of each, and God of all?

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A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; - nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.

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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

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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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He prayeth best who loveth best.

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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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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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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

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The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

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

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The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

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To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

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Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.

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Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

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In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the individual, centred in his heart, is, or may be, collateral to them. Faith is subjective.

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