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

the smallest part is worthy of the whole.

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.

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

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

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.

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.