“My passionate puritan!”
“The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.”
“The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans.”
“Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism.”
“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”
“In reality the puritans and the humanists were quite often the same people.”