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

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

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

Every house: temple, empire, school.

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

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

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

Men are merriest when they are from home.

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

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.