“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.”
Love
“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.”
KnowledgeAll Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”
Sympathy“The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.”
Marriage“Friendship is 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.”
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“Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”
Friendship“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”
Wisdom“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“Poetry: the best words in the best order.”
Poetry“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“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.”
Failure“He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.”
Hope“As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.”
Dreams“People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.”
Humor“Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.”
Imagination“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“Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.”
Truth“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“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