If we allow the Jews to have dwellings amongst us, why should we not allow them to have synagogs [houses of worship]?
I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general.
The dead are the only people to have permanent dwellings.
Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.
I have always felt that the best security for civilization is the dwelling, and that upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends more than anything else the improvement of mankind. Such dwellings are the nursery of all domestic virtues, and without a becoming home the exercise of those virtues is impossible.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
I don't think estates are grim places.
I don't want to be romantic, but one of the most important things is to have happy buildings... it's like having a family with a lot of children.
She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of space. It was the spaces, in fact, which counted, rather than the bricks.
Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?
