Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"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."

"Friendship is a sheltering tree."

"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."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"Silence does not always mark wisdom."