That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeI must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThose who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeHe saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeHealth is a great blessing--competence obtained by honorable industry is a great blessing--and a great blessing it is to have kind, faithful, and loving friends and relatives; but, that the greatest of all blessings, as it is the most ennobling of all privileges, is to be indeed a Christian.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge