Leigh Hunt

“Stolen kisses are always sweetest.”

“The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.”

“Colors are the smiles of nature.”

“The groundwork of all happiness is health.”

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

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

“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!”

“Sympathize with the joy of your friend as well as his grief.”

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

“The two divinest things this world has got, a lovely woman in a rural spot!”

“Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.”

“Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities; the discovery of relations in the midst of seeming contradictions.”