Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. – Philip James Bailey
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. – Philip James Bailey
America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land. – Philip James Bailey
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. – Philip James Bailey
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence. – Philip James Bailey
