The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

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.

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.

I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.

a woman of the world should always be the mistress of sorrow and not its servant. She may have a grief but never a grievance.

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

the smallest part is worthy of the whole.