I quit life as from an inn, not as from a home.

Every house: temple, empire, school.

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

Being offended is the natural consequence of leaving one’s home.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.

God walks among the pots and pans.

Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.

It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.

People can say what they like about the eternal verities, love and truth and so on, but nothing’s as eternal as the dishes.

An American will build a house in which to pass his old age and sell it before the roof is on.

An exile with no home anywhere is a corpse without a grave.

For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?