--_Terence._

929

_Hope._--"Hast thou hope?" they asked of John Knox, when he lay a-dying.
He spoke nothing, but "raised his finger and pointed upward," and so
died.

--_Carlyle._

930

HOSPITALITY.

You must come home with me and be my guest;
You will give joy to me, and I will do
All that is in my power to honor you.

--_P. B. Shelley._

931

All our sweetest hours fly fastest.

--_Virgil._

932

HOME.

We leave
Our home in youth--no matter to what end--
Study--or strife--or pleasure, or what not;
And coming back in few short years, we find
All as we left it outside: the old elms,
The house, the grass, gates, and latchet's self-same click:
But, lift that latchet,--
Alas! all is changed as doom.

--_Bailey: Festus._

933

CHILDREN IN THE HOUSE.

Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear,
And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea,
And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters;
And so right many fair things I might praise;
Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair
As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten,
To see the light of babes about the house.

--_Euripides._

934

Often, old houses mended,
Cost more than new, before they're ended.

--_Colley Cibber._

935

Though we should be grateful for good homes, there is no house like
God's out-of-doors.

--_Robert Louis Stevenson._

936

_Boswell_: "I happened to start a question, whether, when a man knows
that some of his intimate friends are invited to the house of another
friend with whom they are all equally intimate, he may join them without
an invitation." Johnson: "No, sir, he is not to go when he is not
invited. They may be invited on purpose to abuse him"--smiling.

937

Houses are built to live in more than to look on; therefore let use be
preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.

--_Bacon._

938

It's an unhappy household where all the smiles are