John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5283 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 5283 |
| AUTHOR: | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
| QUOTATION: | An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries, with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and star. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Friend. No. 14. |
| Note 1. See Wordsworth, Quotation 163. [back] |