An idea, in the highest sense of that word, cannot be conveyed but by a symbol.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeI do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeEvery human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeYou see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge