If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.
Leigh Hunt

Colors are the smiles of nature.
Leigh Hunt

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.
Leigh Hunt

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

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.
Leigh Hunt

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.
Leigh Hunt

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