Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

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

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.

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

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

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

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

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

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