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.
Light, air and comfort - these three things I must always have in a room.
Simplicity, suitability and proportion.
Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.
No one chair should be isolated.
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.