Quotes from Leigh Hunt

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them, what were we?

I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.

Danger for danger's sake is senseless.

It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well-nestled in bed and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs are tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labor of the day is gone.

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.

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

Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

Jenny kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in. Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me; Say I'm growing old, but add Jenny kissed me.

And, lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.

Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel, writing in a book of gold; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said - "What writest thou?" The Vision raised its head, And, with a look made all of sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord."

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

One can love any man that is generous.

Great women belong to history and to self-sacrifice, not to the annals of a stage, however dignified.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

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

The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.

This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.

And showed the names whom love of God had bless'd,And lo! Ben Adhem's name led all the rest.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

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

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

Write me as one that loves his fellow men.

An angel writing in a book of gold.