There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other. — John Smith Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective. — John Smith Copy Share Image
“Whilst the ships stayed, our allowance was somewhat bettered, by a daily proportion of biscuit, which the sailors would pilfer to sell, give, or… — John Smith Copy Share Image
You must obey this now for a Law, that he that will not worke shall not eate (except by sickness he be disabled:) for… — John Smith Copy Share Image
The best way to manipulate a man is to make him think he is manipulating you. — John Smith Copy Share Image
Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the Garden of… — John Smith Copy Share Image
Here are mountaines, hills, planes, valleys, rivers, and brooks, all running most pleasantly into a faire Bay, compassed but for the mouth, with fruitfull… — John Smith Copy Share Image
With this lodging and diet our extreme toil in bearing and planting palisades so strained and bruised us and our continual labor in the… — John Smith Copy Share Image
Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints. — John Smith Copy Share Image
