“He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.”
Hope
“People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.”
HumorAll Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before they sing.”
Nature“People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.”
Humor“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“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“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“I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.”
Great“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.”
Failure“As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.”
Dreams“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“The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.”
Love“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“Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.”
Truth“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“Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.”
Strength“That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.”
Faith