Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

I have found words [in the Bible] for my inmost thoughts, songs for my joy, utterances for my hidden griefs, and pleadings for my shame and my feebleness.

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For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

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This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

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Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.

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Friendship is a sheltering tree.

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Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

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We ne'er can be Made happy by compulsion.

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He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.

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Death but supplies the oil for the inextinguishable lamp of life.

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I shall attack Chemistry, like a Shark.

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

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Mr. Lyell's system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth.

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Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two - The friend I've wept and the maid I woo.

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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

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Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into the world) which did not expand the intellect, while it purified the heart--which did not multiply the aims and objects of the understanding, while it fixed and simplified those of the desires and passions.

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A spring of love gush'd from my heart, And I bless'd them unaware.

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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

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Rage is essentially vulgar.

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I understood that you would take the Human Race in the concrete, have exploded the absurd notion of Pope's Essay on Man, [Erasmus] Darwin, and all the countless Believers-even (strange to say) among Xtians-of Man's having progressed from an Ouran Outang state-so contrary to all History, to all Religion, nay, to all Possibility-to have affirmed a Fall in some sense.

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The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.

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