Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

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Joy is the sweet voice, joy the luminous cloud. We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, all melodies the echoes of that voice, all colours a suffusion from that light.

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That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

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Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

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A people are free in proportion as they form their own opinions.

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The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered.

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I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any service, must be self-evolved in the first instance. I am something of the Quaker's mind in this, and am inclined to wait for the spirit.

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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

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The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

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The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.

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The form of truth will bear exposure, as well as that of beauty herself.

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Farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.

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Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people, because they have a power of looking at such persons as objects of amusement of another race altogether.

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Health is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.

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Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.

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

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General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.

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'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way.

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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

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