13 Quotes by John Stuart Blackie

Order is the law of all intelligible existence.

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.

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

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