There is a religion in all deep love, but the love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The heart should have fed upon the truth, as insects on a leaf, till it be tinged with the color, and show its food in every ... minutest fiber.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge