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BAILEY, Gamaliel Quotes
(1807-1859), American journalist and abolitionist
What men call accident is the doing of God's providence.
The firefly only shines when on the wing; so it is with the mind; when we rest we darken.
The worst men often give the best advice.
America—half-brother of the world.
The name of Christ—the one great word—well worth all languages in earth or heaven.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.—All sin is easy after that.
Dew-drops—nature's tears, which she sheds on 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.
Earth's liquid jewelry, wrought of the air.
The best enjoyment is half disappointment to what we intend or would have in this world.
Who never doubted, never half believed.—Where doubt is, there truth is —it is her shadow.
There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
There is nothing on earth worth being known but God and our own souls.
Grief hallows hearts even while it ages heads.
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 help another, without helping himself.
Both man and womankind belie their nature when they are not kind.
Men might be better if we deemed better of them.—The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it.
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on the dial; we should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Walk boldly and wisely in the light thou hast; there is a hand above will help thee on.
Let each man think himself an act of God; his mind a thought, his life a breath of God.
Every believer is God's miracle.
They who forgive most, shall be most forgiven.
It is sad to think how few our pleasures really are, and for which we risk eternal good.
Poetry is itself a thing of God.—He made his prophets poets; and the more we feel of poesie do we become like God in love and power.
As nightingales feed on glow worms, so poets live upon the living light of nature and beauty.
Poets are all who love and feel great truths, and tell them.
Any heart turned Godward, feels more joy in one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raised by all the feasts on earth since its foundation.
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.
The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
Night brings out stars, as sorrow shows us truths.
The sun-god's crest upon his azure shield, the heavens.
The death-bed of a clay, how beautiful!
Amid life's quests there seems but worthy one, to do men good.
Keep thy spirit pure from worldly taint by the repellent strength of virtue.
Thou wind! which art the unseen similitude of God the Spirit, his most sweet and mightiest sign.
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