Philip James Bailey

None but God can fill the perfect whole.

— Philip James Bailey

Men might be better if we better deemed of them.

— Philip James Bailey

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.

— Philip James Bailey

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

— Philip James Bailey

Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.

— Philip James Bailey

The value of a thought cannot be told.

— Philip James Bailey

He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.

— Philip James Bailey

Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.

— Philip James Bailey

Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which…

— Philip James Bailey

Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.

— Philip James Bailey

The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.

— Philip James Bailey

Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since…

— Philip James Bailey

America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.

— Philip James Bailey

Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.

— Philip James Bailey

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

— Philip James Bailey

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

— Philip James Bailey

How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!

— Philip James Bailey

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

— Philip James Bailey

A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.

— Philip James Bailey

Let us think less of men and more of God.

— Philip James Bailey

Poetry is itself a thing of God; He made his prophets poets; and the more We feel of poesie do we become…

— Philip James Bailey

The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.

— Philip James Bailey

See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.

— Philip James Bailey

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

— Philip James Bailey

I am tired of looking on what is, One might as well see beauty never more, As look upon it with an…

— Philip James Bailey

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

— Philip James Bailey