Plants look up in heaven, from whence They have their nourishment.
Help, when we meet them, Lame dogs over stiles.
It is not enough to help an erring brother out of the mire,--we must help to get him upon a rock.
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.
Cling to thy home! if there the meanest shed Yield thee a hearth and shelter for thy head, And some poor plot, with vegetables stored, Be all that Heaven allots thee for thy board,-- Unsavory bread, and herbs that scattered grow Wild on the river brink or mountain brow, Yet e'en this cheerless mansion shall provide More heart's repose than all the world beside.
Having offered a prize for the best definition of "Home," London _Tit-Bits_ recently received more than five thousand answers. Among those which were adjudged the best were the definitions as follows:
A world of strife shut out, a world of love shut in.
Home is the blossom of which heaven is the fruit.
The best place for a married man after business hours.
Home is the coziest, kindliest, sweetest place in all the world; the scene of our purest earthly joys, and deepest sorrows.
The place where the great are sometimes small, and the small often great.
The father's kingdom, the children's paradise, the mother's world.
The ornaments of a home are the friends who frequent it.
God hath often a great share in a little house, and but a little share in a great one.
Home is the grandest of all institutions.
Stay, stay at home, my heart, and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble, and full of care; To stay at home is best.
There's little pleasure in the house when our gudeman's awa'.
How many fine, well furnished and pretentious houses we now see around us, occupied and owned by successful people, in which there is hardly a market-basket full of books! Evidently showing that the material is of more importance than the intellectual.
We neglect the things which are placed before our eyes, and regardless of what is within our reach, we pursue whatever is remote. This is frequently and properly applied to the rage for visiting foreign countries, in those who are absolutely unacquainted with their own.