Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.

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Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth.

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A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

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A stately pleasure-dome decree.

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No sound is dissonant which tells of life.

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If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?

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Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist

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All nature seems at work.

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Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

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Above all things I entreat you to preserve your faith in Christ. It is my wealth in poverty, my joy in sorrow, my peace amid tumult. For all the evil I have committed, my gracious pardon; and for every effort, my exceeding great reward. I have found it to be so. I can smile with pity at the infidel whose vanity makes him dream that I should barter such a blessing for the few subtleties from the school of the cold-blooded sophists.

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When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

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Why is it that so many of us persist in thinking that autumn is a sad season? Nature has merely fallen asleep, and her dreams must be beautiful if we are to judge by her countenance.

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How did the atheist get his idea of that God whom he denies?

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Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.

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Oh, the difficulty of fixing the attention of men on the world within them!

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Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

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Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into the world) which did not expand the intellect, while it purified the heart--which did not multiply the aims and objects of the understanding, while it fixed and simplified those of the desires and passions.

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A Court has no right to strain the law because it causes hardship.

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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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As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

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