Quotes
Quotes - Bailey
Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.
Imagination is the air of mind.
For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too. - Philip James Bailey, Festus
And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
Both man and womankind belie their nature When they are not kind.
Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.
Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.
Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above; Ask of the great sum what is light; Ask what is darkness of the night; Ask sin of what may be forgiven; Ask what is happiness of heaven; Ask what is folly of the crowd; Ask what is fashion of the shroud; Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss; Ask of thyself what beauty is.
I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
Love spends his all, and still hath store.
The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love.
Could I love less, I should be happier now.
The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.
Let each man think himself an act of God. His mind a thought, his life a breath of God.
Right human relations is the only true peace.
Every believer is God's miracle.
Music tells no truths.
To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. - Talking to Myself.
The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
Nature means Necessity.
Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.
Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.
Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.
