Anne Bradstreet Quotes

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.

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 pleases.

Let Greeks be Greeks, and women what they are.

My hope and treasure lies above

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

That when we live no more, We may live ever

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

The spring is a lively emblem of the Resurrection.

What to my Saviour shall I giveWho freely hath done this for me?I’ll serve him here whilst I shall liveAnd Loue him to Eternity

We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.

I wish my Sun may never set, but burn.

My love is such that Rivers cannot quench,
Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence.
Thy love is such I can no way repay,
The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.

If what I do prove well, it won’t advance. They’ll say it’s stolen, or else it was by chance.

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending; a negligent youth is usually attended by an ignorant middle age, and both by an empty old age.

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

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

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.