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
Nights deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind. – Leigh Hunt
If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating. – Leigh Hunt
With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination? – Iain Sinclair