Leigh Hunt

Who was Leigh Hunt?

James Henry Leigh Hunt, best known as Leigh Hunt, was an English critic, essayist, poet and writer.

Famous Quotes:

• It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
• The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
• The groundwork of all happiness is health.
• Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
• Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
• If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.
• The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
• Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
• Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
• Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.