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.

A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

the smallest part is worthy of the whole.

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.

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.

When one begins to think of oneself as growing old, one is already old.