Philip James Bailey Quotes

Men might be better if we better deemed
Of them. The worst way to improve the world
Is to condemn it.

Respect is what we owe; love what we give.

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life
But needs it, and may learn.

Any heart turned Godward feels more joy
In one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raised
By all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

Music tells no truths.

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.

I cannot be content with less than heaven;
Living, and comprehensive of all life.
Thee, universal heaven, celestial all;
Thee, sacred seat of intellective time;
Field of the soul's best wisdom: home of truth,
Star-throned.

Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.

America thou half-brother of the world!
With something good and bad of every land.

Who never doubted never half believed
Where doubt there truth is—'t is her shadow.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from hell.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Life's but a means unto an end; that end
Beginning, mean, and end to all things, — God.
The dead have all the glory of the world.

While men are what they are; while they have bad Passions to be roused up: while ruled by men; While all the powers and treasures of a land At beck of the ambitious, wrongs may be Offered, with insult; yea, while rights are worth Maintaining; freedom keeping, or life having, So long dread I, the sword shall shine.