.....Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist. I repeat it. Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an Atheist.
..........— Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), British poet, critic, leader of the romantic movement. To Thomas Allsop, ca. 1820, from the dust jacket of Joseph Lewis'
Atheism and Other Addresses. Sources: (1) George Seldes,
The Great Quotations (1961), (2)
http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/quote-c2.htm.