Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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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Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

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May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

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It is a flat'ning Thought, that the more we have seen, the less we have to say.

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The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered.

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Never can true courage dwell with them, Who, playing tricks with conscience, dare not look At their own vices.

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Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .

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If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

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We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

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Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

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

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I am sure from my experience of juries that, in a criminal case especially, they will obey the law as declared by the Judge; they will take the law from the Judge, whether they like it or do not like it, and apply it honestly to the facts before them.

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The love of indolence is universal, or next to it.

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The present system of taking oaths is horrible. It is awfully absurd to make a man invoke God's wrath upon himself, if he speaks false; it is, in my judgment, a sin to do so.

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Joy rises in me, like a summer's morn.

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The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but then it depends much more on execution for its effect.

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The Reformation in the sixteenth century narrowed Reform. As soon as men began to call themselves names, all hope of further amendment was lost.

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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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I stood in unimaginable trance And agony that cannot be remembered.

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If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

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