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

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of...

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of...

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they...

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they...

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in...

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in...

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart...

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart...

I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose...

I may not hope from outward forms to win The passion and the life, whose...

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than...

A man's desire is for the woman, but the woman's desire is rarely other than...

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what...

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what...

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or...

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or...

Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the...

Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the...

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse...

There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse...

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to...

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to...

Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate...

Genius is a nuisance, and it is the duty of schools and colleges to abate...

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.