We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.

We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.

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.

You will soon find that your joy in your home is growing, and that you have a source of happiness within yourself that you had not suspected.

I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.

What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it- and beauty of a nobler kind that we may grow to understand.

Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake.