“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.” — Johann von Goethe

“Family life is the source of the greatest human happiness.” — Robert J. Havighurst

“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

“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.” — Douglas Jerrold

“If solid happiness we prize, within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam; the world has nothing to bestow, From our own selves our bliss must flow, And that dear hut — our home.” — Nathaniel Cotton

“He who would be happy should stay at home.” — Greek proverb

“He who leaves his house in search of happiness pursues a shadow.” — Anon.