Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory."

"Dreams are the poetry of sleep."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

"Language is the music of thought."

"To be discontented with the divine discontent is the first step to all progress."

"Hope is the parent of faith."

"The sorrow of the rich is never relieved by the poor."

"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition."

"True and false are attributes of speech, not of things."

"In every distempered state, we shall find some one evil principle as the cause of many evils."

"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient."

"The imagination that stirs within us is the organ of meaning."

"Books are a quieter type of magic."

"We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and the higher the price in the end."

"Nature has made a man for society."

"The invisible world is all around us and we are living in it."

"Whatever creed be his, he is a good man who thinks always of the future generation."

"All love begins by a metaphor."

"I have awakened at dawn after dreaming of the Universal Mind."

"The history of a man's progress is the history of his errors corrected."

"What is reading but a delay of thought?"

"All things move in cycles, all things return again."

"The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family."

"Science in its essence is not a system of laws but a system of knowledge."

"Music is a kind of mathematics that speaks to the soul."

"Strength is found not by running from pain but through it."

"The most powerful weapon against adversity is acceptance."

"Fear is the enemy of progress and the ally of stagnation."

"Power without principle is tyranny."

"The essence of friendship is entireness."