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

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

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

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

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

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

Men are merriest when they are from home.

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

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

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