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. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Read Quote
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 Read Quote
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Read Quote
General principles… are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Read Quote
Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Read Quote
The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Read Quote
How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Read Quote
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 Read 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 Taylor Coleridge Read Quote
