Men are merriest when they are from home.

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

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.

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

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Every house: temple, empire, school.

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

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

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