Anne Bradstreet

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.

— Anne Bradstreet

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

— Anne Bradstreet

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.

— Anne Bradstreet

If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.

— Anne Bradstreet

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

— Anne Bradstreet

More fool than I to look on that was lent, As if mine own, when thus impermanent.

— Anne Bradstreet