
One can love any man that is generous. —
Leigh Hunt

If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now. —
Leigh Hunt

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair. —
Leigh Hunt

The two divinest things this world has got,A lovely woman in a rural spot! —
Leigh Hunt

With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks. —
Leigh Hunt

A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the old angler's face to a fish. —
Leigh Hunt

If you become a Nun, dear,
The bishop Love will be;
The Cupids every one, dear!
Will chant-'We trust in thee!' —
Leigh Hunt

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

Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort. —
Leigh Hunt

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain. —
Leigh Hunt

May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility. —
Leigh Hunt

For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern. —
Leigh Hunt

Colors are the smiles of nature. —
Leigh Hunt

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

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense. —
Leigh Hunt

A pleasure so exquisite as almost to amount to pain. —
Leigh Hunt

Patience and gentleness is power. —
Leigh Hunt

Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh? —
Leigh Hunt

Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things. —
Leigh Hunt

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

Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples. —
Leigh Hunt

To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return. —
Leigh Hunt

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable. —
Leigh Hunt

The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves ... —
Leigh Hunt

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius. —
Leigh Hunt

There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations. —
Leigh Hunt

Happy opinions are the wine of the heart. —
Leigh Hunt

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

Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs. —
Leigh Hunt

Improvement is nature. —
Leigh Hunt

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

The groundwork of all happiness is health. —
Leigh Hunt

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. —
Leigh Hunt

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

There seems a life in hair, though it be dead. —
Leigh Hunt

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment. —
Leigh Hunt

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice. —
Leigh Hunt

Christmas is the glorious time of great Too-Much. —
Leigh Hunt

Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart. —
Leigh Hunt

Poetry is the breath of beauty. —
Leigh Hunt

Stolen kisses are always sweetest. —
Leigh Hunt

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

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

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

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. —
Leigh Hunt

The loveliest hair is nothing, if the wearer is incapable of a grace. —
Leigh Hunt

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder. —
Leigh Hunt

I entrench myself in books equally against sorrow and the weather. —
Leigh Hunt

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