Leigh Hunt Quotes

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

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

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

Patience and gentleness is power.

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

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

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.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

Happy opinions are the wine of the heart.

A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word "effrontery" comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall.

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

The most fascinating women are those that can most enrich the every day moments of existence. In a particular and attaching sense, they are those that can partake our pleasures and our pains in the liveliest and most devoted manner. Beauty is little without this; with it she is triumphant.

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.

Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

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

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

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

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

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.

A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character, he can enjoy equally 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.

The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. It is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness.

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