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

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?

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

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

God walks among the pots and pans.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Men are merriest when they are from home.

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

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

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

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

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