"The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle. It stands for permanence and separation from the world."
—Simone de Beauvoir
"Home is not the one tame place in a world of adventure; it is the one wild place in a world of rules and set tasks."
—G. K. Chesterton
"A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home."
—Chinese Proverb
"The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose."
—Edward Coke
"Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day
Without suspecting our abode, until we drive away."
—Emily Dickinson
"He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"We need not power or splendor,
Wide hall or lofty dome;
The good, the true, the tender,
These form the wealth of home."
—Sarah J. Hale
"Home, the spot of earth supremely blest,
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest."
—Robert Montgomery
"Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners."
—Charles H. Parkhurst
"Home is where the heart is."
—Pliny the Elder
"A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it."
—H.L. Mencken
"The home should be the treasure chest of living."
—Le Corbusier, Swiss architect and painter.
"A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul."
—Phillip Moffitt
"Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace."
—Vernon Baker
"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."
—Confucius
"Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments."
—Channing Pollock
"A home without books is a body without soul."
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Roman statesman, orator, philosopher
"A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."
—(Sarah) Margaret Fuller (1810-50), American writer, critic, "Woman in the Nineteenth Century"
"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-94), American writer, physician
"If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered."
—A. Edward Newton
"Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey."
—Tad Williams