“Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips and Cuttings, integra et in toto! She is sure to get the better of Lady in the long run, and to take her revenge too — transforms our To Day into a Canvass dead-colored to receive the dull featureless Portrait of Yesterday.”
“No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Friendship is a sheltering tree.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge