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

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

Every house: temple, empire, school.

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

Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.

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

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

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

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

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