I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little the more as I grow older.
Montaigne (Essay, Of Repentance).
Coleridge was holding forth on the effects produced by his preaching, and appealed to Lamb: “You have heard me preach, I think?” “I have never heard you do anything else,” was the urbane reply.
(John Sterling said) Coleridge is best described in his own words:
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread.
For he on honey-dew hath fed,