John Smith Quotations

The pain of preparation is nothing like the pain of losing.

Everything of worth is found full of difficulties.

How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.

Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag? The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.

Communism works, if everybody stopped carring about money.

The settled will of the Scottish people.

There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.

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 Paradise, the weight and authority of tradition maintains that death is just an alteration in our state of consciousness, and that the quality of our continued existence in the afterlife depends on the quality of our living here and now.

I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.