Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeHeart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeIt is the duty of the Judge in criminal trials to take care that the verdict of the jury is not founded upon any evidence except that which the law allows.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeMy case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeYou see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge