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

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

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

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

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

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

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.

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

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.