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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Men are merriest when they are from home.

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

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