Sweet Cottage Home by Kate Greenaway

"Home! The place where all man's best and happiest hours are passed.

Where in our language shall we find a word of four letters that stirs the sweet pulses of life,

like this of home - our home?"

~ Sarah Josepha Hale, Editress of Godey's Magazine

Cottage in Autumn by Kate Greenaway

"Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset,

with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage."

~ Thomas Kincade

Cozy Mountain Cottage

"Home is the nicest word there is."

~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

Gorgeous Home

“The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home.

There she may find her vocation and fight her battles,

and there she may learn the reality and the earnestness of life.”

 ~ Elizabeth Prentiss

Autumn Harvest Floral Farm Scene

For a list of autumn inspired activities, visit here.

Cottage with Lovely Garden and Contentment

"I have heard of some good old woman in a cottage,

who had nothing but a piece of bread and a little water,

and lifting up her hands, she said, as a blessing,

“What! all this, and Christ too?'”

~ Charles Spurgeon

Cottages in Color

“I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.” 

~ Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility