In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan than to be unmarried.

- Alice Morse Earle

In the end, there's something of the puritan work ethic about me that roles really must sustain me on an intellectual level.

- Damian Lewis

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

The result has been that although few conservative Presbyterian churches actually worship in the Puritan way, the Puritan theology of worship remains the standard orthodoxy among them. This discrepancy sometimes leads to guilty consciences.

- John Frame

Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

- Robert E. Lee

They believed that every man should know how to read and how to write, and should find out all that his capacity allowed him to comprehend. That is the glory of the Puritan fathers.

- Robert Green Ingersoll

Liszt was a bit of a rock and roller at heart, but he was a bit of a puritan on his sounds.

- Rick Wakeman

The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.

- William H. O'Connell