Philip James Bailey

Imagination is the air of mind.

— Philip James Bailey

Every believer is God's miracle.

— Philip James Bailey

Error is worse than ignorance.

— Philip James Bailey

Music tells no truths.

— Philip James Bailey

Evil then results from imperfection.

— Philip James Bailey

Kindness is wisdom.

— Philip James Bailey

Life hath more awe than death.

— Philip James Bailey

Life is as serious a thing as death.

— Philip James Bailey

Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.

— Philip James Bailey

Could I love less, I should be happier now.

— Philip James Bailey

Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.

— Philip James Bailey

England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!

— Philip James Bailey

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

— Philip James Bailey

Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.

— Philip James Bailey

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

— Philip James Bailey

All are of the race of God, and have in themselves good.

— Philip James Bailey

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

— Philip James Bailey

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

— Philip James Bailey

We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.

— Philip James Bailey

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

— Philip James Bailey

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

— Philip James Bailey

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

— Philip James Bailey

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

— Philip James Bailey

It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to…

— Philip James Bailey

Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot…

— Philip James Bailey

Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread,…

— Philip James Bailey

Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and…

— Philip James Bailey

The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else…

— Philip James Bailey

Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at…

— Philip James Bailey

Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now…

— Philip James Bailey

Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by…

— Philip James Bailey

Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers; How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in…

— Philip James Bailey

The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber…

— Philip James Bailey

Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above; Ask of the great sun what is…

— Philip James Bailey

Death is another life.

— Philip James Bailey

The heart is its own Fate.

— Philip James Bailey

Surely the stars are images of love.

— Philip James Bailey

Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.

— Philip James Bailey

The truth of truths is love.

— Philip James Bailey

The sole equality on earth is death.

— Philip James Bailey