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.
Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake.
No one chair should be isolated.
Simplicity, suitability and proportion.
I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.
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.