Who said “A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health…”?

“Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.”

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.”

“Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.”

“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.”

“If you want a golden rule that will fit everybody, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”

“No furniture so charming as books.”

“Live always in the best company when you read.”

“What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?”

“Avoid shame but do not seek glory --nothing so expensive as glory.”

“Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.”

“I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.”