a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it- and beauty of a nobler kind that we may grow to understand.

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

There never has been a house so bad that it couldn't be made over into something worthwhile.

You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not.

I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.