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

- Cotton Mather

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

- 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

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

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

- 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

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

- 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