"It's amazing how many houses are built with the logistical impossibility of bringing a sofa in."

"One was a 17th-century cottage complete with low ceilings, cut down doorways that you had to stoop to pass through...…"

"Fletchers straighten arrow shafts Irrigators channel water Carpenters fashion wood The wise themselves."

"Are the tools without, which the carpenter puts forth his hands to, or are they and all the carpentry within himself;…"

"Sure if they cannot cut, it may be said His saws are toothless, and his hatchets lead."

"Speak, what trade art thou? Why, sir, a carpenter. Where is thy leather apron and thy rule? What dost thou with thy b…"

"A carpenter's known by his chips."

"The carpenter dresses his plank—the tongue of his fore-plane whistles its wild ascending lisp."

"The house-builder at work in cities or anywhere, The preparatory jointing, squaring, sawing, mortising, The hoist-up …"

"Where lies the land to which the ship would go? Far, far ahead, is all her seamen know. And where the land she travel…"