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

- John Stuart Blackie

Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

- John Stuart Blackie

Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his discipl…

- John Stuart Blackie

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

- John Stuart Blackie

Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee slumbering, Trim th…

- John Stuart Blackie

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

- John Stuart Blackie

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 Blackie

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

- John Stuart Blackie

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

- John Stuart Blackie