“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
Wisdom
“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.”
HappinessAll Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”
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 principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.”
Architecture“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.”
Love“He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.”
Hope“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”
Sympathy“Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.”
Imagination“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“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.”
Happiness“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 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“A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.”
Imagination“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“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
Friendship“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“That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.”
Faith“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.”
Failure“No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.”
Humor“To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.”
Experience