127 Quotes by Leigh Hunt

A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the old angler’s face to a fish.

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?

The most tangible of all visible mysteries – fire.

Night’s deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

An exquisite invention this, Worthy of Love’s most honeyed kiss, – This art of writing billet-doux – In buds, and odors, and bright hues! In saying all one feels and thinks In clever daffodils and pinks; In puns of tulips; and in phrases, Charming for their truth, of daisies.

Danger for danger’s sake is senseless.

Mankind are creatures of books, as well as of other circumstances; and such they eternally remain, – proofs, that the race is a noble and believing race, and capable of whatever books can stimulate.

We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love’s dropp’d eyelids and a kiss, – Such our breath and blueness is.

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.