Anne Bradstreet Quotes


"If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance."
- Anne Bradstreet
(Related: 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."
- Anne Bradstreet
(Related: Men, God, Affliction)

"Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending."
- Anne Bradstreet
(Related: Age, Time, Middle age, Old, Youth)

"A prosperous state makes a secure Christian, but adversity makes him Consider."
- Anne Bradstreet
(Related: Christian, Adversity, State)