We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.
Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room.
It is not chic to be too chic.
My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability.
A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.
To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.