Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions form our true honor. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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 Taylor Coleridge
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language is the armoury of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. ‘Thou shalt not’ is their characteristic formula. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day! Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Summer has set in with its usual severity. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. Samuel Taylor Coleridge