Philip James Bailey

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

The sole equality on earth is death.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

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.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

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

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

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.

Imagination is the air of mind.