What an unfailing barrier against vice, immorality and bad habits are those tastes which lead us to embellish a home, to which at all times and in all places we turn with delight, as being the object and the scene of our fondest cares, labours and enjoyments; whose humble roof, whose shady porch, whose verdant lawn and smiling flowers all breathe forth to us, in true, earnest tones, a domestic feeling that at once purifies the heart and binds us more closely to our fellow beings.
Á, denn ósvikaliga vernd ímóti lastum, ólevnaði og óvanum eru smakkirnir, sum fáa okkum at prýða eitt heim, har vit altíð og allastaðni leita til við gleði, tí tað er tann luturin og tann pallurin , har okkara kærleiki, arbeiði og gaman er; hvørs ússaliga tak, hvørs skuggagevandi veranda, hvørs grasvaksni vøllur og smílandi blómur anda ímóti okkum við sonnum, erligum tónum, ein heimlig kensla, sum beinanvegin reinsar hjartað og knýtir okkum nærri at okkara medmenniskjum.