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

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

Men are merriest when they are from home.

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

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

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

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.

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

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