Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch Of mossy apple tree.

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The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

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The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

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Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.

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False doctrine does not necessarily make a man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.

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Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.

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

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One thought includes all thought, in the sense that a grain of sand includes the universe.

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Perhaps 'tis pretty to force together Thoughts so all unlike each other; To mutter and mock a broken charm, To dally with wrong that does no harm.

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Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!

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Clergymen who publish pious frauds in the interest of the church are the orthodox liars of God.

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

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Iambics march from short to long;-- With a leap and a bound the swift Anapaests throng

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To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

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How wonderfully beautiful is the delineation of the characters of the three patriarchs in Genesis! To be sure if ever man could, without impropriety, be called, or supposed to be, "the friend of God," Abraham was that man. We are not surprised that Abimelech and Ephron seem to reverence him so profoundly. He was peaceful, because of his conscious relation to God.

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The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

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A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and is prospective.

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A wild rose roofs the ruined shed, And that and summer well agree.

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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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Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

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