John Stuart Blackie
John Stuart Blackie
Prof John Stuart Blackie FRSEwas a Scottish scholar and man of letters...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth28 July 1809
wine water tea
Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.
plato simple order
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.
religious art men
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.
drama heaven earth
Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.
bless plot power reaping task thee thou thy trim wake wilt
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.