Anne Bradstreet

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.

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

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

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.

A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.

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

Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.

If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

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.

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.