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

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

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

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

God walks among the pots and pans.

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

Every house: temple, empire, school.

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

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

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

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

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

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