memorial to John Stuart Blackie in St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh John Stuart Blackie's grave, Dean Cemetery John Stuart Blackie (28 July 1809 – 2 March 1895) was a Scottish scholar and man of letters. Read full biography of John Stuart Blackie →
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.
Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts.
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.
memorial to John Stuart Blackie in St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh John Stuart Blackie's grave, Dean Cemetery John Stuart Blackie (28 July 1809 – 2 March 1895) was a Scottish scholar and man of letters.