Friendship is a sheltering tree.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEFriendship is a sheltering tree.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWith no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes,
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEPoetry 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 COLERIDGEThere is in every human countenance either a history or a prophecy which must sadden, or at least soften every reflecting observer.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEUntil you understand a writer’s ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAdvice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThe faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEI never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEIt is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEThat gracious thing, made up of tears and light.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEHe who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGETranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGESilence does not always mark wisdom.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEWhat is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGEAlas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGENo man does anything from a single motive.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE