Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere.

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I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and all the countless Believers-even (strange to say) among Xtians-of Man's having progressed from an Ouran Outang state-so contrary to all History, to all Religion, nay, to all Possibility-to have affirmed a Fall in some sense.

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Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

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We must follow the old authorities and precedents in criminal matters.

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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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Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.

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

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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

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Some persons have contended that mathematics ought to be taught by making the illustrations obvious to the senses. Nothing can be more absurd or injurious: it ought to be our never-ceasing effort to make people think, not feel.

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To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.

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A rogue is a roundabout fool.

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Remorse weeps tears of blood.

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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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Silence does not always mark wisdom.

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

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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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The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: And a thousand thousand slimy things Lived on; and so did I.

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

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