“Look for happiness under your own roof.”

“A library is infinity under a roof.”

“Write your own name and your sweetheart's, with the smoke of a candle on the roof of the kitchen, or the servants hall, to show your learning.”

“Under the shady roof
Of branching elm star-proof.”

“Yet voluble of dumb violence. You look
Across the roofs as sigil and as ward
And in your centre mark them and are cowed...”

“A perfectly flat roof permits up to 50 percent more heat gain that a pitched roof… This illustrates the failure of the flat-roof construction to get natural, hot air flow out from under the eaves.”

“Know your own happiness.”

“When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.”

“Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.”

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.”