Leigh Hunt

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.

— 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

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

— 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

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

— Leigh Hunt

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

— 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

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

— Leigh Hunt

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

— Leigh Hunt

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

— Leigh Hunt