Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
Category Archive: Philip James Bailey
Imagination is the air of mind.
America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
Music tells no truths.
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
Envy’s a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
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.
Kindness is wisdom.
The long days are no happier than the short ones.
Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.