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

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

A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.

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

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.

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

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

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

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