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

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

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

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

Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.

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.

Men are merriest when they are from home.

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

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.