Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Love is flower like Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Sympathy constitutes friendship but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

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

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

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.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.