Leigh Hunt

The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.

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

The most tangible of all visible mysteries fire.

The groundwork for all happiness is good health.

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

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

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

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

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

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

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

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

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

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

Colors are the smiles of nature.

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

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

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

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

Bread milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.

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

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes around a corner.

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

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

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