Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a life and a living process.
Category Archive: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
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.
Advice is like snow – the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
Poetry 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.
No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.