If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the drea...mer, the house allows one to dream in peace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you but mark how this becomes the house! "Dear daughter, I confess that I am old;... Age is unnecessary. On my knees I beg That you'll vouchsafe me raiment, bed, and food."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For what reason have I this vast range and circuit, some square miles of unfrequented forest, for my privacy, abandoned to me by m...en? My nearest neighbor is a mile distant, and no house is visible from any place but the hill-tops within half a mile of my own. I have my horizon bounded by woods all to myself; a distant view of the railroad where it touches the pond on the one hand, and of the fence which skirts the woodland road on the other. But for the most part it is as solitary where I live as on the prairies. It is as much Asia or Africa as New England. I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In Tsegihi, In the house made of dawn,... In the house made of the evening twilight, In the house made of the dark cloud, ... Oh, male divinity! With your moccasins of dark cloud, come to us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The structure was designed by an old sea captain who believed that the world would end in a flood. He built a home in the traditio...nal shape of the Ark, inverted, with the roof forming the hull of the proposed vessel. The builder expected that the deluge would cause the house to topple and then reverse itself, floating away on its roof until it should land on some new Ararat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the House, Members of the Senate, my fellow Americans, all I have I would have given gladly... not to be standing here today.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »