Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
– Leigh Hunt
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
– 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
Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.
– Leigh Hunt
Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
– Leigh Hunt
The groundwork of all happiness is health.
– Leigh Hunt
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
– Leigh Hunt
Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
– Leigh Hunt
Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
– Leigh Hunt
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
– 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 same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.