"A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body " — Benjamin Franklin

The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.

Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790-1793)

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body

Source: The Tatler, no. 147 (1710)

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy

Source: The Way to Wealth (1758)

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud

Source: The Spectator, no. 225 (1711)

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk

Source: Letters of John Keats (1817-1820)

Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of man

Source: The Human Seasons (1818)

Benjamin Franklin Quote