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 was born with the courage to live. Only those are unwise who have never dared to be fools.

It is not chic to be too chic.

When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.

the smallest part is worthy of the whole.

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

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