Quotes by Philip Bailey

• 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.
• America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
• Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
• Music tells no truths.
• Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
• 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.
• Kindness is wisdom.
• Imagination is the air of mind.
• The long days are no happier than the short ones.
• Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
• There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
• Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
• What men call accident is God's own part.
• Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
• Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.
• The sole equality on earth is death.
• Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.