A woman in a single state may be happy and may be miserable; but most happy, most miserable, these are epithets belonging to a wife.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation are, — 1. Security to possessors; 2. Facility to acquirers; and 3. Hope to all.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThere are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided: 1. That dear old soul; 2. That old woman; 3. That old witch.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeI have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge