Sara Coleridge Quotes

I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea. Even a little of it is like manure to the soil of the mind, and makes it bear finer flowers.

Hot July brings cooling showers,Apricots and gillyflowers.

When I read or hear of the mutual injuries of England and Ireland, I fancy it would have been a blessed thing had the sea never flowed between the two countries. Had they been all in one, surely there would have been more unity between them of interests and of feelings. But let us hope that days of peace and general enlightenment will arrive by ways past man’s finding out.

Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast.

Much waste of words and of thought too would be avoided if disputants would always begin with a clear statement of the question, and not proceed to argue till they had agreed upon what it was that they were arguing about.

Religious bigotry is a dull fire – hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it.

there is nothing so uncertain and slippery as fact.

Life is the steam of the corporeal engine; the soul is the engineer who makes use of the steam-quickened engine.

Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.

June brings tulips, lilies, roses,Fills the children’s hands with posies.

avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.

It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the hand as a cow with a musket.