Anne Bradstreet

My love is such that Rivers cannot quench, _x000D_ _x000D_ Nor ought but love from thee, give recompence. _x000D_ _x000D_ Thy love is such I can no way repay, _x000D_ _x000D_ The heavens reward thee manifold I pray.

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.

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.

O Time the fatal wrack of mortal things,_x000D_ That draws oblivion's curtains over kings;_x000D_ Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not,_x000D_ Their names without a record are forgot,_x000D_ Their parts, their ports, their pomps all laid in th' dust_x000D_ Nor wit nor gold, nor buildings scape time's rust;_x000D_ But he whose name is graved in the white stone_x000D_ Shall last and shine when all of these are gone.

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

That when we live no more, We may live ever

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

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

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

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

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