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

Every house: temple, empire, school.

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

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

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

A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in / A minute to smile and an hour to weep in.

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

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

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

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