Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

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A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

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...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical formulae.

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Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

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

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Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

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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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In your intercourse with sects, the sublime and abstruse doctrines of Christian belief belong to the Church; but the faith of the individual, centred in his heart, is, or may be, collateral to them. Faith is subjective.

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In what way, or by what manner of working, God changes a soul from evil to good, how He impregnates the barren rock--the priceless gems and gold--is to the human mind an impenetrable mystery, in all cases alike.

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Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

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That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

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Rage is essentially vulgar.

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

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No man does anything from a single motive.

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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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If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

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We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.

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For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars.But thou, my babe! Shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the cragsOf ancient mountains, and beneath the clouds,Which image in their bulk both lakes and shoresAnd mountain crags: so shall thou see and hearThe lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy GodUtters, who from eternity doth teachHimself in all, and al things in himselfGreat universal teacher! He shall moldThy spirit and by giving , make it ask.

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