Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt) Quotes

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.

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.

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

Patience and Gentleness is Power

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

Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion. The spirit of fashion is not the beautiful, but the wilful; not the graceful, but the fantastic; not the superior in the abstract, but the superior in the worst of all concretes,--the vulgar

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

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

Write me as one that loves his fellow men.

The golden line is drawn between winter and summer. Behind all is blackness and darkness and dissolution. Before is hope, and soft airs, and the flowers, and the sweet season of hay; and people will cross the fields, reading or walking with one another; and instead of the rain that soaks death into the heart of green things, will be the rain which they drink with delight; and there will be sleep on the grass at midday, and early rising in the morning, and long moonlight evenings.