Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

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.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

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

No one does anything from a single motive.

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

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

Good and bad men are less than they seem.

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

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors; two, facility to acquirers; and three, hope to all.

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

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

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

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

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

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?

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.