Quotes from Thomas Hood

There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon.

Fuss is the froth of business.

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!

Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.

Our very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our hopes belied; We thought her dying when she slept, And sleeping when she died.