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Language
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Love
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All thoughts, all passions, all delightsWhatever stirs this mortal frameAll are but ministers of LoveAnd feed His sacred flame.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Marriage
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The most happy marriage I can imagine to myselfwould be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Medicine
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Motivational
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What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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No one does anything from a single motive.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
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I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language -- religion -- government -- blood -- identity in these makes men of one country.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Opinion
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Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Parliament
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You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it -- low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion -- and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Plagiarism
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Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Poetry
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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.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Politics
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In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Pride
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And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Proverbial Wisdom
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What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Quotations
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Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Recovery (addiction/alcoholism)
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My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Reform, Correction
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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Religion
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A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then it would be mere Philosophy; -- nor of facts alone without ideas, of which those facts are symbols, or out of which they arise, or upon which they are grounded: for then it would be mere History.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action -- that the end will sanction any means.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Right, Rightness
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Rights! There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the Rights of Man.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Seasons
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Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,
Whether the summer clothe the general earth
With greenness, or the redbreast sit and sing
Betwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branch
Of mossy apple tree.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Frost at Midnight
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Books by and about Samuel Taylor Coleridge