Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
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Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.
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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.
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Experience informs us that the first defense of weak minds is to recriminate.
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Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises
[Instincts]
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False doctrine does not necessarily make the man a heretic, but an evil heart can make any doctrine heretical.
[Error]
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Farce may often border on tragedy; indeed, farce is nearer tragedy in its essence than comedy is.
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Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.
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Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.
[Reading]
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Friendship is a sheltering tree.
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General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.
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God is everywhere, the God who framed mankind to be one mighty family, himself our father, and the world our home.
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God knows, it is as much as I can do to put meat and bread on my own table; & hourly some poor starving wretch comes to my door, to put in his claim for a part of it.
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Good and bad men are less than they seem.
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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Hamlet's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will, or opportunity; but every incident sets him thinking; and it is curious, and at the same time strictly natural, that Hamlet, who all the play seems reason itself, should he impelled, at last, by mere accident to effect his object. I have a smack of Hamlet myself, if I may say so.
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Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.
[Happiness]
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He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
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He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.
[Prayer]
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He told me that facts gave birth to, and were the absolute ground of, principles; to which I said, that unless he had a principle of selection, he would not have taken notice of those facts upon which he grounded his principle. You must have a lantern in your hand to give light, otherwise all the materials in the world are useless, for you cannot find them; and if you could, you could not arrange them.
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He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
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