John Stuart Blackie Quotes

The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.

Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.

A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing.