Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher Quotes

There are no rights whatever without corresponding duties. Look at the history of the growth of our constitution, and you will see that our ancestors never upon any occasion stated, as a ground for claiming any of their privileges, an abstract right inherent in themselves; you will nowhere in our parliamentary records find the miserable sophism of the ghts of Man.

He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; poetry = the best words in the best order.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country. But language, religion, government, blood -- identity in these makes men of one country.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premisses, but in the nature and parts of premisses.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are -- . Security to possessors; . Facility to acquirers; and, . Hope to all.

We receive but what we give.

If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil.

Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

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.