“For serenity, always prefer the cottage to the palace!”
“I have found more inspiration in the cottages of fishermen than in the palaces of the rich.”
“Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.”
“You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)”
“As distasteful as it is to decline your invitation, I'm afraid that it is preferable to attending yet another half-assed weekend eating gunky canapes in that cesspool of a shack you call a beach cottage.”
“Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.”