Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)
Context: One of the most ancient and inexpensive ways of obtaining shelter, was to utilize the space under sloping roof rafters. Indian wigwams have no other kind. Where civilization is slightly more advanced, low stone walls are built upon which the feet of the rafters rest.<!--Ch. III
“The shelter of excuses has a leaky roof.”
Lift Me UP! Service With A Smile (2005)
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“Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.”
1830s, Literary Ethics (1838)
Context: Explore, and explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatise yourself, nor accept another's dogmatism. Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, for the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board. Make yourself necessary to the world, and mankind will give you bread, and if not store of it, yet such as shall not take away your property in all men's possessions, in all men's affections, in art, in nature, and in hope.
“For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know”
Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)
“From a gabled roof the rolling melon has two choices of descent, though both lead to disaster.”
Source: Dragon Magic (1972), Chapter 5, “Shui Mien Lung—Slumbering Dragon” (p. 164)
“Not everyone has a sob story, Charlie, and even if they do, it's no excuse.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.”
"Hymn", from Mount Zion (1931).
Poetry
“Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.”
Section 36
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)