The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer (like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding), lies here, food for worms; but the work shall not be lost, for it will (as he believed) appear once more in a new and more elegant edition, revised and corrected by the Author.

Benjamin Franklin · His epitaph on himself, composed in 1728

Eat to live, and not live to eat.

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanac (1733). May

Behold the water that falls from heaven upon our vineyards; there, it enters the roots of the vines to be changed into wine; constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.

Benjamin Franklin · Yours, B. Franklin Letter to William Strahan, Letter to Abbé Morellet (written in French) [c. July 1775]

Lost time is never found again.

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanac (1748). January

More Quotes from Books

So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.

Victor Hugo · Les Misérables (1862), preface

"The king died and then the queen died" is a story. "The king died and then the queen died of grief" is a plot.

E. M. Forster · Aspects of the Novel (1927)

My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

Emily Brontë · Catherine to Nelly Dean in the same chapter 9 speech, a moment before "Nelly, I am Heathcliff!"; the sentence before it says her love for Linton "is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it".

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“Eat to live, and not live to eat.”

“Behold the water that falls from heaven upon our vineyards; there, it enters the roots of the vines to be changed into wine; constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.”

“Lost time is never found again.”

“So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.”

“"The king died and then the queen died" is a story. "The king died and then the queen died of grief" is a plot.”

“My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.”