Those who best know human nature will acknowledge most fully what a strength light hearted nonsense give to a hard working man

Quote by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Topics: Humanity Quotes, Work Quotes

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

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...

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.

Our own heart, and not other men's opinions form our true honor.

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government...

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government...

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities...

$The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities...$

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They...

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They...

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.

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...

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself...

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself...

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...

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...

Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

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

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

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold.

The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, / Who thicks man's blood with cold.

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 know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not...

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not...

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you...

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you...

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want...

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want...