Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
Leigh HuntIf you are melancholy for the first time, you will find, upon a little inquiry, that others have been melancholy many times, and yet are cheerful now.
Leigh HuntThe only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.
Leigh HuntMay exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modest without servility.
Leigh HuntWe lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and the epithet suits well with the eyes of that goddess, because she may be supposed, with all her beauty, to want a certain humanity. Her large eyes look at you with a royal indifference.
Leigh Hunt