I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their houses. Call it what you will - awakening, development, American Renaissance - it is a most startling and promising condition of affairs.

I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in.

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.

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

the smallest part is worthy of the whole.

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

It is not chic to be too chic.