A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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 Taylor Coleridge

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friendship is a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Good and bad men are less than they seem.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge