661 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life went a-maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy, When I was young!

If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.

Metaphysics, – the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

Mr. Lyell’s system of geology is just half the truth, and no more. He affirms a great deal that is true, and he denies a great deal which is equally true; which is the general characteristic of all systems not embracing the whole truth.

Mr. Mum’s Rudesheimer And the church of St. Geryon Are the two things alone That deserve to be known In the body-and-soul-stinking town of Cologne.

For compassion a human heart suffices, but for full and adequate sympathy, with joy, an angel’s only.

What comes from the heart goes to the heart.

Acquaintance many, and conquaintance few, But for inquaintance I know only two – The friend I’ve wept and the maid I woo.

For mother’s sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.