He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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 Taylor Coleridge

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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 Taylor Coleridge

Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No one does anything from a single motive.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge