Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"In the very heart of courtesy is a noble unselfishness."

"Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature."

"There is one criterion by which we may know whether or not a man is a snob: does he respect only the poor or the rich?"

"Calmness is great power."

"I have seen great beauty of soul in those with scarred faces."

"Patience is power with time on its side."

"Work is love made visible."

"The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness."

"To be discontented with the divine discontent is the first step to all improvement and reform."

"The man who loves not his country can love nothing."

"Deeply versed in books and shallow in himself."

"The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact."

"Adversity does the work which prosperity shrinks from."

"Fear is power surrendered to something else."

"Men are poets when they speak of the future."

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

"The true art of memory is the art of attention."

"Nature never wears the same expression twice."

"There are three classes of people: the discoverers, the authorities, and the mass."

"A man without gaiety is like a wagon without springs."

"The history of men is reflected in the history of the external world."

"Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work."

"Moderation is knowledge wisely applied."

"Death, as the last sleep? No, the last awakening."

"Believe yourself, and the world will believe you."

"The heart is a lonely hunter."

"Those that stop dreaming are half-dead."

"Adventure is worthwhile."

"All knowledge begins with wonder."

"To find the universal in the particular is the task of the poet."