John Stuart Blackie Quotations

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

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.

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.