Quotes by Anne Bradstreet

• Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
• 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.
• Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
• A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider.
• Adversity is the whetstone of character; it sharpens us to face our greatest challenges with resilience and grace.
• When nothing is certain, anything is possible.