Leave not thy nest, thy dam and sire,Fly back and sing amidst this choir.
The air of one’s native country is the most healthy air.
A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigor of the game.
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from which we go forth to more careful and guarded intercourse, leaving behind us much debris of cast-off and everyday clothing.
I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime
Going to the mountains is going home.
I secretly understood: the primitive appeal of the hearth. Television is — its irresistible charm — a fire.