Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the majesty That had their haunts in dale or piny mountain, Or forest by slow stream, or pebbly spring, Or chasms and watery depths, all these have vanished; They live no longer in the faith of reason.

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When a man mistakes his thoughts for persons and things, he is mad.

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Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

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Memory, bosom-spring of joy.

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No sound is dissonant which tells of life.

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Great old books of the great old authors are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have neither time nor means to get his own belief.

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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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The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.

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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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Either we have an immortal soul, or we have not. If we have not, we are beasts,--the first and the wisest of beasts, it may be, but still true beasts. We shall only differ in degree and not in kind,--just as the elephant differs from the slug. But by the concession of the materialists of all the schools, or almost all, we are not of the same kind as beasts, and this also we say from our own consciousness. Therefore, methinks, it must be the possession of the soul within us that makes the difference.

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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

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Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

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Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

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The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine?

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The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.

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

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A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

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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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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.

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We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the most proper places, that every one may reflect a part of its color and brightness on the next.

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