"Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)

"Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess which will itself need reforming."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)

"I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)

"I wish our clever your poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose--words in their best order; poetry--the best words in the best order."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)

"Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)

"The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)

"To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)

"Water, water, every where, and all the boards did shrink; water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink."
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)