Philip James Bailey
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.Collection: God
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.Collection: Memorial
Kindness is wisdom.Collection: Wisdom
The sole equality on earth is death.Collection: Equality
Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.Collection: Love
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.Collection: Religion
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.Collection: Art
Imagination is the air of mind.Collection: Imagination
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
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.
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.
What men call accident is God's own part.
America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
The long days are no happier than the short ones.
Music tells no truths.
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.
Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.Collection: Acquisition
It matters not how long we live but how.Collection: Life
The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it.Collection: Simple
Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.Collection: Home
It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.Collection: Future
I have a heart with room for every joy .Collection: Heart
Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.Collection: God
Life is less than nothing without love.Collection: Love
Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.Collection: Art
There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.Collection: Disappointment
Every believer is God's miracle.Collection: Miracle
Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.Collection: Rose
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.Collection: Motivational
Where imperfection ceaseth, heaven begins.Collection: Imperfection
The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!Collection: Beautiful
The truth of truths is love.Collection: Love
My favoured temple is an humble heart.Collection: Heart
Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.Collection: Humility
All things that speak of heaven speak of peace.Collection: Peace
Let us think less of men and more of God.Collection: God
Love is the art of hearts, and heart or arts.Collection: Love
Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.Collection: Eye
Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.Collection: Night
Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.Collection: Love
None but the brave and beautiful can love.Collection: Love
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.Collection: Stars