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?

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.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

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

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

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

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

It’s your business when your neighbor’s wall is in flames.

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

Every house: temple, empire, school.

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