The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living."

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

Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that we have made it; and while every woman prepares food for her own family, cooking can never rise beyond the level of the amateur's work.

In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.

The female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.