More quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Friendship is a sheltering tree."
"He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration."
"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."
"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."