Philip James Bailey

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

Respect is what we owe; love what we give.

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from hell.

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

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

The worst men often give the best advice.

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

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 …

Music tells no 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.

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 …

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

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.

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.

Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us 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.

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