Philip James Bailey Quotes

Imagination is the air of mind.

imagination

The worst men often give the best advice.

advice

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

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

good and evil

Great thoughts, like great deeds, need
No trumpet.

thoughts

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

America

Man is a military animal, 
Glories in gunpowder, and loves parade;
Prefers them to all things.

mankind man the animal

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

Worthy books
Are not companions—they are solitudes:
We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.

books

There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes,
Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth.

eyes