look up in heaven, from whence
They have their nourishment.

875

Help, when we meet them,
Lame dogs over stiles.

876

It is not enough to help an erring brother out of the mire,--we must
help to get him upon a rock.

877

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and
misfortunes of mankind.

--_Gibbon._

878

My precept to all who build is, that the owner should be an ornament to
the house, and not the house to the owner.

--_Cicero._

879

HOME.

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.

--_From the Greek of Leonidas._

880

DEFINITIONS OF "HOME."

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.

881

The ornaments of a home are the friends who frequent it.

--_Emerson._

882

God hath often a great share in a little house, and but a little share
in a great one.

883

Home is the grandest of all institutions.

--_Spurgeon._

884

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.

--_Longfellow._

885

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