661 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

What comes from the heart goes to the heart

As long as we have to administer the law we must do so according to the law as it is. We are not here to make the law.

Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher intellectual powers can only act through a corresponding energy of the lower.

Never yet did there exist a full faith in the Divine Word (by whom light as well as immortality was brought into the world) which did not expand the intellect, while it purified the heart--which did not multiply the aims and objects of the understanding, while it fixed and simplified those of the desires and passions.

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

It is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.