“The doing evil to avoid an evil Cannot be good.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Wallenstein, Part I, Act iv, sc. 6, translated from Schiller, 1800

About Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1772 – 1834

English Romantic poet, author of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner".

“So for the mother's sake the child was dear, and dearer was the mother for the child.”

“A spring of love gushed from my heart, and I bless'd them unaware.”

“The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind.”

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”