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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can't comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there's no life and love inside.

My idea of home is not necessarily a place.

A house is kind of scary.

The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

One of the main uses of a home is to stay in it, when one is too weak and spiritless for conforming, without effort, to the ways of other houses.

Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

We can finish a house, but never a home. Once you fall in love with a house, you find continual pleasures in fixing it up and making innovations that satisfy your creature's comforts.

Home wasn't so much a house as people, family.