Leigh Hunt
Stolen kisses are always sweetest.Collection: Love
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.Collection: Food
Colors are the smiles of nature.Collection: Nature
The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.Collection: Famous
The groundwork of all happiness is health.Collection: 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.Collection: Imagination
Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.Collection: Love
Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.Collection: Music
There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.Collection: Life
Patience and gentleness is power.Collection: Influence
A large bare forehead gives a woman a masculine and defying look. The word "effrontery" comes from it. The hair should be brought over such a forehead as vines are trailed over a wall.Collection: Wall
If you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.Collection: Cheerful
Poetry is the breath of beauty.Collection: Poetry
Happy opinions are the wine of the heart.Collection: Heart
There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.Collection: Wisdom
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.Collection: Flower
The most fascinating women are those that can most enrich the every day moments of existence. In a particular and attaching sense, they are those that can partake our pleasures and our pains in the liveliest and most devoted manner. Beauty is little without this; with it she is triumphant.Collection: Pain
Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.Collection: Occupation
God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.Collection: Laughter
Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things.Collection: Light
Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.Collection: Beauty
Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.Collection: Sweet
To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.Collection: Appreciation
The very greatest genius, after all, is not the greatest thing in the world, any more than the greatest city in the world is the country or the sky. It is the concentration of some of its greatest powers, but it is not the greatest diffusion of its might. It is not the habit of its success, the stability of its sereneness.Collection: Country
When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.Collection: Courage
The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.Collection: Attractive
It is our daily duty to consider that in all circumstances of life, pleasurable, painful, or otherwise, the conduct of others, especially of those in the same house; and that, as life is made up, for the most part, not of great occasions, but of small everyday moments, it is the giving to those moments their greatest amount of peace, pleasantness, and security, that contributes most to the sum of human good. Be peaceable. Be cheerful. Be true.Collection: Giving
A dog can have a friend; he has affections and character, he can enjoy equally the field and the fireside; he dreams, he caresses, he propitiates; he offends, and is pardoned; he stands by you in adversity; he is a good fellow.Collection: Friendship
When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does not mean that we can at all times be really cheerful, or at a moment's notice; but that the endeavor to look at the better side of things will produce the habit, and that this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden evils.Collection: Lying
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.Collection: Affection
The beautiful attracts the beautiful.Collection: Beautiful
Cats at firesides live luxuriously and are the picture of comfort.Collection: Cat
Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.Collection: Nature
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.Collection: Beauty
Hair is the most delicate and lasting of our materials, and survives us, like love. It is so light, so gentle; so escaping from the idea of death, that, with a lock of hair belonging to a child or friend, we may almost look up to heaven and compare notes with the angelic nature,--may almost say, "I have a piece of thee here not unworthy of thy being now.Collection: Children
The most tangible of all visible mysteries - fire.Collection: Fire
Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making.Collection: Christmas
One can love any man that is generous.Collection: Men
"Books ... books, ..." he exclaims. It is those that teach us to refine on our pleasures when young, and which, having so taught us, enable us to recall them with satisfaction when old.Collection: Inspirational
Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling, and break forth into other beauty besides, they are her laughs.Collection: Color
Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.Collection: Sorrow