Carpentry

“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...- there have been cases where people have died after clocking their heads so frequently in old cottages - and I was told it was part of the character.”

“Are the tools without, which the carpenter puts forth his hands to, or are they and all the carpentry within himself; and would he not smile at the notion that chest or house is more than he?”

“Sure if they cannot cut, it may be saidHis saws are toothless, and his hatchets lead.”

“He talks of wood: it is some carpenter.”

“Speak, what trade art thou? What dost thou with thy best apparel on?”

“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 blows of the mallets and hammers.”