Philip James Bailey - Men Quotes

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While men are what they are; while they have bad
Passions to be roused up: while ruled by men;
While all the powers and treasures of a land
At beck of the ambitious, wrongs may be
Offered, with insult; yea, while rights are worth
Maintaining; freedom keeping, or life having,
So long dread I, the sword shall shine.

Philip James Bailey
True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form,
The bended knee, the eye uplift, is all
Which men need render; all which God can bear.
What to the faith are forms? A passing speck,
A crow upon the sky.

Philip James Bailey
Men might be better if we better deemed
Of them. The worst way to improve the world
Is to condemn it.

Philip James Bailey
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.

Philip James Bailey
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.

Philip James Bailey
Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.

Philip James Bailey
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.

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

Philip James Bailey
Even as when In planning some steel-rutted road, long years Dreamed of, — where now the fire-horse ramps, steam-breath'd, Sweating red coal-drops on his panting path, — The deep-eyed engineer his level lays Inscrutable, and anon, the hills with men, Brood of his brain swarm.

Philip James Bailey