Leigh Hunt Quotes (18 Quotes)

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

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If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

One of the animals which a generous and sociable man would soonest become is a dog. A dog can have a friend he has affections and character, he can equally enjoy the field and the fireside he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates he offends, and is pardoned he stands by you in adversity he is a good fellow.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm that soothes the weary mind The labored days restoring balm the comfort of mankind.