Top 100 Philip James Bailey Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Art is a man’s nature; nature is God’s art.”

— Philip James Bailey

2. “It matters not how long we live but how.”

— Philip James Bailey

3. “Life is less than nothing without love.”

— Philip James Bailey

4. “Death is another life.”

— Philip James Bailey

5. “The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!”

— Philip James Bailey

6. “When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.”

— Philip James Bailey

7. “My favoured temple is an humble heart.”

— Philip James Bailey

8. “Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.”

— Philip James Bailey

9. “Every believer is God’s miracle.”

— Philip James Bailey

10. “There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.”

— Philip James Bailey

11. “Lowliness is the base of every virtue, And he who goes the lowest builds the safest.”

— Philip James Bailey

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12. “I have a heart with room for every joy .”

— Philip James Bailey

13. “Love is the art of hearts, and heart or arts.”

— Philip James Bailey

14. “The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.”

— Philip James Bailey

15. “Doubt is the shadow of truth.”

— Philip James Bailey

16. “England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!”

— Philip James Bailey

17. “Hell is more bearable than nothingness.”

— Philip James Bailey

18. “What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?”

— Philip James Bailey

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

— Philip James Bailey

20. “Stars which stand as thick as dewdrops on the field of heaven.”

— Philip James Bailey

21. “He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be.”

— Philip James Bailey

22. “Error is worse than ignorance.”

— Philip James Bailey

23. “Surely the stars are images of love.”

— Philip James Bailey

24. “Where doubt there truth is – ’tis her shadow.”

— Philip James Bailey

25. “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.”

— Philip James Bailey

26. “Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.”

— Philip James Bailey

27. “We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.”

— Philip James Bailey

28. “Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.”

— Philip James Bailey

29. “The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.”

— Philip James Bailey

30. “The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one’s self.”

— Philip James Bailey

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31. “Imagination is the air of mind.”

— Philip James Bailey

32. “See the sun! God’s crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.”

— Philip James Bailey

33. “For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.”

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34. “Dewdrops, Nature’s tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.”

— Philip James Bailey

35. “The truth of truths is love.”

— Philip James Bailey

36. “Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.”

— Philip James Bailey

37. “Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things – law and war.”

— Philip James Bailey

38. “Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.”

— Philip James Bailey

39. “Hell is the wrath of God – His hate of sin.”

— Philip James Bailey

40. “Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.”

— Philip James Bailey

41. “The heart is its own Fate.”

— Philip James Bailey

42. “When pride thaws, look for floods.”

— Philip James Bailey

43. “Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search, And shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; Rush over it like a river reeds.”

— Philip James Bailey

44. “Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in.”

— Philip James Bailey

45. “The temples perish, but the God still lives.”

— Philip James Bailey

46. “Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.”

— Philip James Bailey

47. “The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.”

— Philip James Bailey

48. “Evil and good are God’s right hand and left.”

— Philip James Bailey

49. “None but the brave and beautiful can love.”

— Philip James Bailey

50. “Life hath more awe than death.”

— Philip James Bailey