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.
John Stuart BlackieConverse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.
John Stuart BlackieWine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.
John Stuart BlackieCreation 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.
John Stuart Blackie