Anne Bradstreet Quotes

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Such cold mean flowers the spring puts forth betime,
Before the sun hath thoroughly heat the clime.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

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

"Sister," quoth Flesh, "what liv'st thou on
Nothing but Meditation?

If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare with me ye women if you can.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

If for thy Father askt, say, thou hadst none;
And for thy Mother, she alas is poor,
Which caus'd her thus to send thee out of door.

Leave not thy nest, thy dam and sire,
Fly back and sing amidst this choir.

What to my Saviour shall I give
Who freely hath done this for me?
I'll serve him here whilst I shall live
And Loue him to Eternity

A Spring returns, and they more youthful made;
But Man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.

The principal might yield a greater sum,
Yet handled ill, amounts but to this crumb;