"A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Society and Solitude

"Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in."
- ROBERT FROST, The Death of the Hired Man

"Where we love is home,
Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."
- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR., Homesick in Heaven

"The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind." - THOMAS JEFFERSON, letter (1813)

"Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse." - GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Man and Superman, The Revolutionist's Handbook

"You Can't Go Home Again." - THOMAS WOLFE, (title of novel)

"You shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our journeying Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time." - Eliot, T. S. in 'Little Gidding V', from 'Four Quartets' 1942