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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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