174 Quotes by Philip James Bailey

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

One thought settles a life, an immortality.

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

Not a single path Of thought I tread, but that it leads to God.

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

It is fine to stand upon some lofty mountain thought, and feel the spirit stretch into a view.

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.

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

Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.