Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. Let not what should be sauce, rather than food for you, engro…

- Cotton Mather

Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.

- Cotton Mather

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

- Cotton Mather

Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.

- Cotton Mather

History is the story of events, with praise or blame.

- Cotton Mather

That there is a Devil, is a thing doubted by none but such as are under the influences of the Devil.

- Cotton Mather

Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.

- Cotton Mather

The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.

- Cotton Mather

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

- Cotton Mather