Coleridge

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

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

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
- All from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772 - 1834

About:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born at Ottery St Mary, Devonshire, England on 21 Oct in 1772. The youngest of thirteen children, he was hectored by older brothers, which led to his taking frequent sanctuary in the local library, reading the Arabian Nights at age six. With his friend William Wordsworth he founded the Romantic Movement in England. His best-known works are The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, the latter of which he claimed came to him in a dream. Today's quotes are a bit more grounded in reality than his poetry.