How deep a wound to morals and social purity has that accursed article of the celibacy of the clergy been! Even the best and most enlightened men in Romanist countries attach a notion of impurity to the marriage of a clergyman. And can such a feeling be without its effect on the estimation of the wedded life in general? Impossible! and the morals of both sexes in Spain, Italy, France, and. prove it abundantly.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeGenius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeAnd they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.
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 ColeridgeSome men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge