Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Friendship is a sheltering tree."

"Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree."

"No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor."

"Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet."

"Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole."

"He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration."

"He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope."

"No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher."

"People of humor are always in some degree people of genius."

"No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher."

"Silence does not always mark wisdom."

"Poetry: the best words in the best order."

"If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us."