Philip James Bailey

We live in deeds We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best. And he whose heart beats quickest lives the longest: Lives in one hour more than in years do some Whose fat blood sleeps as it slips along their veins. Life's but a means unto an end; that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things -- God. The dead have all the glory of the world.

— Philip James Bailey

The worst men often give the best advice.

— Philip James Bailey

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

— Philip James Bailey

Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow.

— Philip James Bailey

Kindness is wisdom.

— Philip James Bailey

Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.

— Philip James Bailey

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

— Philip James Bailey