Quotes By Philip James Bailey

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

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.

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

Imagination is the air of mind.

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

Music tells no truths.

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

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

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

What men call accident is God's own part.

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

The long days are no happier than the short ones.

Kindness is wisdom.

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.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

The sole equality on earth is death.