Hence, viper thoughts, that coil around my mind,Reality's dark dream!I turn from you, and listen to the wind,Which long has raved unnoticed.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeAll sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeGenius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeLaw grows, and though the principles of law remain unchanged, yet (and it is one of the advantages of the common law) their application is to be changed with the changing circumstances of the times. Some persons may call this retrogression, I call it progression of human opinion.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge