John Stuart Blackie Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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