Philip James Bailey Quotes


"America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land."
- Philip James Bailey
(Related: America, Land, World)

"Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love."
- Philip James Bailey
(Related: Love, Truth, Poets)

"Music tells no truths."
- Philip James Bailey
(Related: Music)

"Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade."
- Philip James Bailey
(Related: Man, Military)

"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."
- Philip James Bailey
(Related: Life, God, Thought, Thoughts, Act, Deeds, Heaven, Man, Mind)

"Kindness is wisdom."
- Philip James Bailey
(Related: Wisdom, Kindness)

"Imagination is the air of mind."
- Philip James Bailey
(Related: Imagination, Mind)

"The long days are no happier than the short ones."
- Philip James Bailey
"Art is man's nature; nature is God's art."
- Philip James Bailey
(Related: Art, Nature, God, Man)

"There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence."
- Philip James Bailey
(Related: Absence, Excellence)

"Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth."
- Philip James Bailey
(Related: Truth, Prayer, Spirit)

"What men call accident is God's own part."
- Philip James Bailey
(Related: Men, God, Accident)

"Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art."
- Philip James Bailey
(Related: Art, First, Simplicity)

"Respect is what we owe; love, what we give."
- Philip James Bailey
(Related: Love, Respect)

"The sole equality on earth is death."
- Philip James Bailey
(Related: Death, Equality, Earth)

"Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell."
- Philip James Bailey
(Related: Envy, Hell)