Quotes about Cottage
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.
- Phillips Brooks
Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.
- Charles Dickens
I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc.
- David Brainerd
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
In the cottage the doctor, sitting on the bed in his room, saw a pile of medical journals on the floor by the bureau. They were still in their wrappers unopened. It irritated him.
- Ernest Hemingway