houses quotes

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.