God walks among the pots and pans.

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

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet.

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

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

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

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

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

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

One who is frivolous all day will never establish a household.