Anne Bradstreet Quotes

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he’s laid.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge — fitter to bruise than polish.

There is no object that we see; no action that we do; no good that we enjoy; no evil that we feel, or fear, but we may make some spiritual advantage of all: and he that makes such improvement is wise, as well as pious.

Fire hath its force abated by water, not by wind; and anger must be allayed by cold words, and not by blustering threats.

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on His anvil into what frame He desires.

I prize thy love more than whole mines of gold or all the riches that the East doth hold.

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

To sing of Wars, of Captains, and of Kings/Of Cities founded, Common-wealths begun/For my mean Pen are too superior things.