661 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the Past; the Air and Heaven, of Futurity.

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

No one does anything from a single motive.

The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.

He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream), I hurried with him to our orchard plot, and he beheld the moon, and hushed at once. Suspends his sobs and laughs most silently. While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears, did glitter in the yellow moonbeam.

It is a gentle and affectionate thought, that in immeasurable height above us, at our first birth, the wreath of love was woven with sparkling stars for flowers.

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.