More quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration."
"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."
"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 mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor."