The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThe fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order of time and space.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeA nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeIt [is] very unfair to influence a child's mind by inculcating any opinions before it [has] come to years of discretion to choose for itself.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgePoetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and prose to meter. The proper and immediate object of science is the acquirement, or communication of truth; the proper and immediate object of poetry is the communication of immediate pleasure.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeReaders may be divided into four classes: 1) Sponges, who absorb all that they read and return it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtied. 2) Sand-glasses, who retain nothing and are content to get through a book for the sake of getting through the time. 3) Strain-bags, who retain merely the dregs of what they read. 4) Mogul diamonds, equally rare and valuable, who profit by what they read, and enable others to profit by it also
Samuel Taylor Coleridge