Quotes by "Leigh Hunt"

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

Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace.

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.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

Persons impatient of other’s deficiencies are in fact likely to be equally undiscerning of their merits; and are not aware, in either case, how much they are exposing the deficiencies on their own side. Not only, however, do they get into this dilemma, but what is more, they are lowering their respectability beneath that of the dullest person in the room. They shew themselves deficient, not merely in the qualities they miss in [a wise man who doesn’t make an ostentatious show of his knowledge] but in those which he really possesses, such as self knowledge and good temper. Were they as wise as they pretend to be, they would equal him in these points, and know how to extract something good from them in spite of his deficiency in the other; for intellectual qualities are not the only ones that excite the reflections, or conciliate the regard, of the truly intelligent, of those who can study human nature in all its bearings, and love it or sympathize with it, for all its affections.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

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