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.

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

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

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

Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.

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

Men are merriest when they are from home.

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

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

Every house: temple, empire, school.

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

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