Philip James Bailey

“Music tells no truths.”

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

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

“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.”

“Imagination is the air of mind.”

“We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.”

“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.”

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

“We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.”

“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.”

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

“Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.”

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

“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.”

“What men call accident is God's own part.”

“The sole equality on earth is death.”