“Coleridge was perhaps the most celebrated of all drinkers of laudanum, and splendid studies have been written of its influence on his Muse. Nobody seems to have paid attention to its influence on his bowels, for laudanum was a rare constipator. How much of The Ancient Mariner was the result of intestinal stasis?”
“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