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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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