“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
Friendship
“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.”
TruthAll Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.”
Knowledge“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“As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.”
Dreams“That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.”
Faith“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“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“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.”
Failure“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.”
Love“To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.”
Experience“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”
Poetry“The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.”
Marriage“Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.”
Strength“I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.”
Great“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“Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.”
Nature“He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.”
Hope“How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.”
Morning“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.”
Architecture