John Stuart Blackie Quotes

#1. 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.

John Stuart Blackie

#2. All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.

John Stuart Blackie

#3. Rocking on a lazy billow
With roaming eyes,
Cushioned on a dreamy pillow,
Thou art now wise.
Wake the power within thee slumbering,
Trim the plot that's in thy keeping,
Thou wilt bless the task when reaping
Sweet labour's prize.

John Stuart Blackie

#4. 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

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

John Stuart Blackie

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

John Stuart Blackie

#7. Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.

John Stuart Blackie

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

John Stuart Blackie

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

John Stuart Blackie