“People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.”
Humor
“Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.”
StrengthAll Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.”
Marriage“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
Wisdom“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“No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.”
Humor“Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.”
Truth“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“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“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.”
Government“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”
Sympathy“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
Friendship“How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.”
Morning“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.”
Love“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.”
Architecture“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.”
Failure“Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.”
Nature“I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.”
Great“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“To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.”
Experience“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