John Stuart Blackie Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma. — John Stuart Blackie

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

All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God. — 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 wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water — 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 the plot that's in thy keeping,
Thou wilt bless the task when reaping
Sweet labour's prize. — John Stuart Blackie