Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

"Life is but thought."

"Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery."

"Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out."

"Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess which will itself need reforming." - Biographia Literaria

"The wise only possess ideas . . . the greater part of mankind are possessed by them." - Defoe

"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." - Table Talk

"To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed." - Table Talk