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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee slumbering, Trim… — John Stuart Blackie Copy Share Image
Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his… — John Stuart Blackie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God. — John Stuart Blackie Copy Share Image
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude. — John Stuart Blackie Copy Share Image
Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma. — John Stuart Blackie Copy Share Image
All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well. — John Stuart Blackie Copy Share Image
The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is… — John Stuart Blackie Copy Share Image
A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing. — John Stuart Blackie Copy Share Image
The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water — John Stuart Blackie Copy Share Image
