I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in.
Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake.
The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.
No one chair should be isolated.
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.
Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.