PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

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

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

The sole equality on earth is death.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

What men call accident is God's own part.

Imagination is the air of mind.

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.

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

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

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

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.

Music tells no truths.

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.

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

Kindness is wisdom.

The worst men give the best advice

Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

The value of a thought cannot be told.

If all were rich, gold would be penniless.

Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river reeds.

It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.