“Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”
Friendship
“The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.”
GovernmentAll Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.”
Failure“Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.”
Friendship“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.”
Death“To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.”
Experience“Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.”
Strength“Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.”
Future“He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.”
Hope“I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is, prose = words in their best order - poetry = the best words in the best order.”
Poetry“That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.”
Faith“Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.”
Imagination“As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.”
Dreams“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.”
Love“He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.”
Truth“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.”
Architecture“Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.”
Imagination“Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.”
Nature“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
Wisdom“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.”
Poetry“Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.”
Truth