John Stuart Blackie Quotes
- The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water
- Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.
- Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.
- 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.
- 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.