Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

"All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. "

"An orphan's curse would drag to HellA spirit from on highBut oh More horrible than thatIs the curse in a dead man's eye. "

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

"Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming. "

"Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. "

"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 oceanAnd 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war "

"Friendship is like a sheltering tree. "

"Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship--never. "

"He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. "

"He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard, by his own stable And the devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother, Abel. "

"He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. "

"I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration. "

"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order-poetry the best words in the best order. "

"If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself. "

"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. "

"No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. "

"Oh sleep It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole. "

"Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, form our true honor. "

"Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. "

"Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense at all events just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least. "

"Poetry the best words in the best order. "

"Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole. "

"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. "

"The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. "

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

"There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1.That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch. "

"There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection. "

"Water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink.Water, water everywhere,Nor any drop to drink. "

"What comes from the heart goes to the heart. "

"What is an epigram A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. "

"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. "