"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."<br/>
--Simone de Beauvoir<br/><br/>

"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."<br/>
--G. K. Chesterton<br/><br/>

"A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home."<br/>
--Chinese Proverb<br/><br/>

"The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose."<br/>
--Edward Coke<br/><br/>

"Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day<br/>
Without suspecting our abode, until we drive away."<br/>
--Emily Dickinson<br/><br/>

"He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."<br/>
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<br/><br/>

"We need not power or splendor,<br/>
Wide hall or lofty dome;<br/>
The good, the true, the tender,<br/>
These form the wealth of home."<br/>
--Sarah J. Hale<br/><br/>

"Home, the spot of earth supremely blest,<br/>
A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest."<br/>
--Robert Montgomery<br/><br/>

"Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners."<br/>
--Charles H. Parkhurst<br/><br/>

"Home is where the heart is."<br/>
--Pliny the Elder<br/><br/>

"A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it."<br/>
--H.L. Mencken<br/><br/>

"The home should be the treasure chest of living."<br/>
--Le Corbusier, Swiss architect and painter.<br/><br/>

"A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul."<br/>
--Phillip Moffitt<br/><br/>

"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."<br/>
--Vernon Baker<br/><br/>

"The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home."<br/>
--Confucius<br/><br/>

"Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments."<br/>
--Channing Pollock<br/><br/>

"A home without books is a body without soul."<br/>
--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Roman statesman, orator, philosopher<br/><br/>

"A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."<br/>
--(Sarah) Margaret Fuller (1810-50), American writer, critic, "Woman in the Nineteenth Century"<br/><br/>

"Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."<br/>
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-94), American writer, physician<br/><br/>

"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."<br/>
--A. Edward Newton<br/><br/>

"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."<br/>
--Tad Williams<br/><br/>