Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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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That saints will aid if men will call; For the blue sky bends over all!

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I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

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Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

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To know, to esteem, to love,-and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart.

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Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!

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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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Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.

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There is nothing insignificant-nothing.

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Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

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Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

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

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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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A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

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Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

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He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.

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

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The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

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Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead.

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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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