Who said “I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my…”?

“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.”

“A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.”

“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.”

“The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.”

“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.”

“I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.”

“We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.”

“It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.”

“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.”