I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.

Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.

Men are probably nearer the essential truth in their superstitions than in their science.

The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens; evenafter the house is burned it still stands sometimes, and its importance and independence are apparent.

Hence it will not do for the Landlord to possess too fine a nature.... He must have no idiosyncracies, no particular bents or tendencies to this or that, but a general, uniform, and healthy development, such as his portly person indicates, offering himself equally on all sides to men.

It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.

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