Philip James Bailey Men Quotations

The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.

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

What men call accident is God's own part.

Men might be better if we better deemed of them.

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

Let us think less of men and more of God.

Thou art a woman, And that is saying the best and worst of thee.

Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.

Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.

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

Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers; How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.

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.