Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

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

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

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.

No man does anything from a single motive.

I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Doing evil to avoid evil cannot be good.

Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate.

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

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

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

And in today already walks tomorrow.

He prayeth best who loveth best.

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

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

To be beloved is all I need, And whom I love, I love indeed.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

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

My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

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

A great mind must be androgynous.

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

Imagination is the living power and prime agent of all human perception.

What comes from the heart goes to the heart

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

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

There is one art of which people should be masters - the art of reflection.