Then seeing that we are not borne for our selves, but each to helpe other, and our abilities are much alike at the houre of our birth, and the minute of our death: Seeing our good deeds, or our badde,… — John Smith Copy Share Image
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
