1. “Suspicion kissed you when I did; I never knew how to tell my love.”
“Pray God. It hurts my heart to strip her, poor rabbit.”

2. “My wife will never die for me
“My wife will never die for me! I will bring your guts into your mouth but that goodness will never die for me!?

3. “31 pounds is gone. I am penniless.”
“Since we built the church there were pewter candlesticks upon the alter; Francis Nurse made them you know….But Parris came and for 20 weeks he preach nothing but golden candlesticks until he had them.

4. “I saw your face when she put me out, and you loved me then and you do now.”
“(…to the ceiling in a genuine conversation with the ‘bird,’ as though trying to talk it out of attacking her). But God made my face; you cannot want to tear my face. Envy is a deadly sin, Mary.”

5. “The devil is precise; the marks of his presence are definite as stone

6. “Is it natural work to lose seven children before they live a day?”

7. “More weight.”
“Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he gave them but 2 words, “more weight?” he says and died.”

8. “And do you know that near to 400 are in jails from Marblehead to Lynn, and upon my signature….And 72 condemned to hang by that signature.”