Quotes on Lumber

Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.

I built up these lumber piles of love, and with fourteen boards each I built little houses, so that your eyes, which I adore and sing to, might live in them. Now that I have declared the foundations of my love, I surrender this century to you: wooden sonnets that rise only because you gave them life.