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Self-love
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He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect better than Christianity and end in loving himself better than all.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Sex
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How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Singing
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Swans sing before they die -- t'were no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Sleep
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Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Snow
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Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, attributed - no source found
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Sympathy
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Things, Little Things
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The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions -- the little soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimal of pleasurable and genial feeling.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Tolerance
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I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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War
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Five miles meandering with mazy motion,
Through dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank the tumult to a lifeless ocean:
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Kahn
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Water
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Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink.
Water, water everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
The very deep did rot: O Christ!
That ever this should be!
Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs
Upon the slimy sea.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1798
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Words
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Prose, words in their best order. Poetry, the best words in the best order.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Books by and about Samuel Taylor Coleridge