Quote of the day
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
John Josselyn
Born: 1638
Died: 1675 (aged 37)
Bio: John Josselyn was a seventeenth-century English traveler to New England who wrote with credulity about what he saw and heard during his sojourn there before returning to England.
Known for:
- New-Englands rarities discovered (1672)
- John Josselyn, colonial traveler