Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities…

The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union…

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness…

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation but no…

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith…

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or…

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree…

Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion…

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they…

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor…

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius…

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale – my dreams become…

A poet ought not to pick nature’s pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as…

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart…