661 Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

Prayers are the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.

Divinity is essentially the first of the professions, because it is necessary for all at all times; law and physics are only necessary for some at some times. I speak of them, of course, not in their abstract existence, but in their applicability to man.

Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

The annals of the French Revolution prove that the knowledge of the few cannot counteract the ignorance of the many.The light of philosophy, when it is confined to a small minority, points out the possessors as the victims rather than the illuminators of the multitude.

And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within.

The true key to the declension of the Roman empire which is not to be found in all Gibbon's immense work may be stated in two words: the imperial character overlaying, and finally destroying, the national character. Rome under Trajan was an empire without a nation.

Advice is like the snow. The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.