Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

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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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Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

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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 words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a fault.

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With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my own experience. It will be but short; for the beginning, middle, and end converge to one charge: NEVER PURSUE LITERATURE AS A TRADE.

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Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

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Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

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Her skin was white as leprosy.

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The nightmare Life-in-Death was she.

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I must lay down the law as I understand it, and as I read it in books of authority.

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Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

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Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm.

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We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.

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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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Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get his own belief.

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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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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.

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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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