“Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.”
“Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.”
“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
“In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.”
“A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside, it is more often his nursery.”
“Be grateful for the home you have, knowing that at this moment, all you have is all you need.”
“Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.”
“Many a man who thinks to found a home discovers that he has merely opened a tavern for his friends.”
“One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.”
“The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.”
“A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.”
“We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.”
“Drab Habitation of Whom? Tabernacle or Tomb -- or Dome of Worm -- or Porch of Gnome -- or some Elf's Catacomb?”
“When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.”
“Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.”
“The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.”
“Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.”
“People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.”
“The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty four hours.”
“Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.”
“I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.”
“The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds under the highest authority.”
“Home -- that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.”
“It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.”
“What the Nation must realize is that the home, when both parents work, is non-existent. Once we have honestly faced that fact, we must act accordingly.”
“If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
“Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.”
“My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.”
“Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?”