Philip James Bailey Quotes

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

Not a single path Of thought I tread, but that it leads to God.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial.

Worthy books Are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.

Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed.

It is sad To see the light of beauty wane away, Know eyes are dimming, bosoms shrivelling, feet Losing their springs, and limbs their lily roundness; But it is worse to feel the heart-spring gone, To lose hope, care not for the coming thing, And feel all things go to decay within us.

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.

Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.

It matters not how long we live but how.

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.

Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.

It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.

I have a heart with room for every joy .

Imagination is the air of mind.

The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it.

Life is less than nothing without love.

Walk boldly and wisely.... There is a hand above that will help you on.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.

Every believer is God's miracle.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.

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

The truth of truths is love.

Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.