The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is most complete, the first is least wanted. Hence, the more virtue the more liberty.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeHow like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeA nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge