The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Topics: Happiness Quotes, Kissing Quotes, Life Quotes, Smile Quotes

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before...

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing should certain persons die before...

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only...

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only...

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion....

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion....

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...

All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers...

All thoughts, all passions, all delights, whatever stirs this mortal frame, all are but ministers...

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

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...

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...

No one does anything from a single motive.

No one does anything from a single motive.

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than...

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than...

The religion of the Jews is, indeed, a light; but it is as the light...

The religion of the Jews is, indeed, a light; but it is as the light...

To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only...

To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only...

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...

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

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

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

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

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

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

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of...

Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of...