Quote: How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly. [Samuel Coleridge]
Quote: Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic. [Samuel Coleridge]
Quote: 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. [Samuel Coleridge]
Quote: Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action -- that the end will sanction any means. [Samuel Coleridge]
Quote: An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars. [Samuel Coleridge]
Quote: As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius -- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination. [Samuel Coleridge]
Quote: Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends. [Samuel Coleridge]
Quote: The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. [Samuel Coleridge]
Quote: People of humor are always in some degree people of genius. [Samuel Coleridge]
Quote: Good and bad men are less than they seem. [Samuel Coleridge]
Quote: The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are -- 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and, 3. Hope to all. [Samuel Coleridge]
Quote: Friendship is a sheltering tree. [Samuel Coleridge]
Quote: And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were. [Samuel Coleridge]
Quote: The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them. [Samuel Coleridge]
Quote: Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love. [Samuel Coleridge]
Quote: He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope. [Samuel Coleridge]
Quote: Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. [Samuel Coleridge]
Quote: What comes from the heart, goes to the heart. [Samuel Coleridge]
Quote: In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. [Samuel Coleridge]
Quote: And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. [Samuel Coleridge]
Quote: Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. [Samuel Coleridge]
Quote: I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language -- religion -- government -- blood -- identity in these makes men of one country. [Samuel Coleridge]
Quote: 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. [Samuel Coleridge]
Quote: That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith. [Samuel Coleridge]
Quote: No one does anything from a single motive. [Samuel Coleridge]