Contributing Quote by Albert Richard Smith

The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping.

— Sydney Smith

“At a certain level housekeeping is a regime of small kindnesses, which, taken together, make the world salubrious, savory, and warm.”

— Marilynne Robinson

“if they had had another neighbor who was less chimerical and more attentive, any ordinary and charitable man, evidently their indigence would have been…

— Victor Hugo

“When I go into the house of one of these tasteless newly rich individuals, and see it bedecked with every imaginable hue, I know…

— Basil the Great

“Quite apart from the fact that we usually pay so dearly for our follies, we should be generous about them, to ourselves and others.…

— Irène Némirovsky

“In my travels I had encountered all kinds of people whose dignity seemed to have a price -- widely variable -- and I thought…

— Piper Kerman

“What we obtain too cheaply, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put…

— Thomas Payne 1776

“Kindness to your family costs you almost nothing but affords a wealth of goodwill.”

— Timothy Schaffert

“It was understandable, then, that the worth of a person was not measured in the things he or she owned, but in the deeds…

— Joseph M. Marshall III

“the poor don’t have much in the way of money or possessions to steal—so it turns out that the most profitable thing to steal…

— Gary A. Haugen

“All of our possessions want to be cared for, and they tell us that every time we look at them.”

— Fumio Sasaki

Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own

— Sallust