Every other science presupposes intelligence as already existing and complete: the philosopher contemplates it in its growth, and as it were represents its history to the mind from its birth to its maturity.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Facts are not truths they are not conclusions they are not even premises but in the nature and parts of premises.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim, and saw naught lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe! Shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountains, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags: so shall thou see and hearth lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy God Utters, who from eternity doth teach Himself in all, and all things in himself Great universal teacher! He shall mold Thy spirit and by giving, make it ask.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind, Reality's dark dream! I turn from you, and listen to the wind.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He prayer well who love well Both man and bird and beast. He prayer best who love best All things both great and small For the dear God who love us He made and love all.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize his own aspirations, either in religion or politics, or society, he gave up his heart to the living spirit and light within him, and avenged himself on the world by enriching it with this record of his own transcendental ideal.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge