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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

God walks among the pots and pans.