Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea.

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The fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.

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Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.

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

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Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

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Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

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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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Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

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Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

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And in today already walks tomorrow.

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Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:--for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.

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Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.

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The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

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

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Stimulate the heart to love and the mind to be early accurate, and all other virtues will rise of their own accord, and all vices will be thrown out.

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The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.

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The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she.

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Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think women generally better creatures than men. They have weaker appetites and weaker intellects but much stronger affections. A man with a bad heart has been sometimes saved by a strong head; but a corrupt woman is lost forever.

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The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

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Men, I still think, ought to be weighed not counted.

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