Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

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Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

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

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How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

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We are now Courts of equity, and must decide the thing according to all the rights.

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A great mind must be androgynous.

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

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

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No sound is dissonant which tells of life.

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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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I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration and minute scrutiny have at length unravelled the cause: viz . that though Reason is feasted, Imagination is starved; whilst Reason is luxuriating in its proper Paradise, Imagination is wearily travelling on a dreary desert.

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God is everywhere! the God who framed Mankind to be one, mighty family, Himself our Father, and the world our home.

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Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

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To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

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There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.

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Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.

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Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.

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The water-lily, in the midst of waters, opens its leaves and expands its petals, at the first pattering of the shower, and rejoices in the rain-drops with a quicker sympathy than the packed shrubs in the sandy desert.

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

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It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.

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