Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati,…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge...

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee, Whether the summer clothe the general earth With greenness, or the redbreast sit and…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No voice; but oh - the silence sank Like music on my heart.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are 1. Security to…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“We in ourselves rejoice! And thence flows all that charms or ear or sight, All melodies the echoes of that voice, All…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Tis calm indeed! so calm, that it disturbs And vexes meditation with its strange And extreme silentness.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing. Methinks, its motion in this hush of nature Gives it dim sympathies with me who…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge