Quotes from Philip James Bailey

Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.

The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.

Who knoweth God the sum of science owns. The heavens record His handiwork; the earth Worships His footsteps; life His breath repeats; The soul His image; everlasting space, The harmonies of His nature echoing, round Reflects His vast extension; the great whole, His boundless being, and His infinite mind.

Who never doubted never half believed Where doubt there truth is -- 'tis her shadow.

The sole equality on earth is death.

America! half-brother of the world! With something good and bad of every land.

Respect is what we owe love, what we give.

Kindness is wisdom.

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

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

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

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.

The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.

True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all Which men need render; all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.

Let us think less of men and more of God.

Men might be better if we better deemed of them.

What men call accident is God's own part.

Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.

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

All things that speak of heaven speak of peace.

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.

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

Every believer is God's miracle.