Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so.

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A rogue is a roundabout fool.

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To leave no interval between the sentence and the fulfillment of it doth beseem God only, the Immutable!

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Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

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Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!

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The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?

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O lady! we receive but what we give And in our life alone does Nature live.

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To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

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Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.

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It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals, we may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite.

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It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

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

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The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.

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The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

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Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.

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Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.

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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

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He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.

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