Samuel taylor coleridge

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

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

No one does anything from a single motive.

I wish our clever young 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.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

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

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

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

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