Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room.

This is the age of the apartment. Not only in the great cities, but in the smaller centers of civilization the apartment has come to stay. ... A decade ago the apartment was considered a sorry makeshift in America, though it has been successful abroad for more years than you would believe.

No one chair should be isolated.

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

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.

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.

It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue - simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.