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
There's little pleasure in the house when our gudeman's awa'.
--_W. J. Mickle._
886
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.
--_Observer._
887
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.
Abroad to see wonders the traveler goes,
And neglects the fine things which lie under his nose.
888
A man without a home is like a bird without a nest.
889
Many a home is nothing but a furnished house.
890