Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Of no agenor of any religion, or party or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.

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Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

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The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she.

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We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.

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The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

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The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.

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It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

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Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

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Fellows of colleges in the universities are in one sense the recipients of alms, because they receive funds which originally were of an eleemosynary character.

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There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

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

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And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

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Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

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In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

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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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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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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

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Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet.

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There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve.

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If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.

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