“If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found the flower in his hand when he awoke-Aye! and what then?”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea!”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“The man’s desire is for the woman; but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Shakespeare…is of no age-nor, I may add, of any religion, or party, or profession. The body and substance of his works came out of the unfathomable depths of his own oceanic mind.”

William Hazlitt
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“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“The happiness of life, on the contrary, is made up of minute fractions-the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“He who begins by loving Christianity, better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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