Philip James Bailey's Quotes

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

Kindness is wisdom.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

The long days are no happier than the short ones.

The sole equality on earth is death.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

Imagination is the air of mind.

Music tells no truths.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

What men call accident is God's own part.

A willing heart adds feather to the heel.

I wish I were with some of the wild people that run in the woods, and know nothing about accomplishments!

Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride.

I have seen the day, when, if a man made himself ridiculous, the world would laugh at him. But now, everything that is mean, disgusting, and absurd, pleases them but so much the better!