A Garden is simple to make — you need only a piece of land and eternity.

The Garden is the best place to seek god. You can dig for him there.

A Garden is a thing we cultivate, and it cultivates us.

The Garden is the poor man's apothecary.

A House is a storage unit you live in.

A House is a hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.

A House is best when small — A little nest is warmer than a big nest.

House is the Mecca of bedbugs. (The difference between a house and a home is this

An Institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; all history resolves itself easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons.

The Institution is necessary to the nation — Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

The Institution is what springs up where there is a lull of truth, just as a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind.

An Institution is the lengthened shadow of one man; as, the Reformation, of Luther; Quakerism, of Fox; Methodism, of Wesley, Abolition, of Clarkson.

The Monument is the grappling-iron that binds one generation to another.

The Monument is a cold and sad memory of a man kept in cold marble who would else be forgotten.

The Monument is for the living, not the dead.

The Monument is something which, like a man, submits to fate.