Quotes from Philip James Bailey

We live not to ourselves, our work is life.

I am tired of looking on what is, One might as well see beauty never more, As look upon it with an empty eye. I would this world were over. I am tired.

And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.

How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

The sole equality on earth is death.

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself