Anne Bradstreet Quotes

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

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."

[Meditations Divine and Moral]

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

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

[Meditations Divine and Moral]

I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.

My love is such that rivers cannot quench