Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“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.”

“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.”

“Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.”

“All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.”

“Alas! they had been friends in youth but whispering tongues can poison truth.”

“He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.”

“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”