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 dispensed in society
and all the frowns at home.
939
He has no religion who has no humanity.
940
Our humanity were a poor thing, but for the Divinity that stirs within
us.
--_Bacon._
941
With the humble there is perpetual peace.
--_Shakespeare._
942
When you see an ear of corn holding itself very high (or a human head)
you may be sure there is nothing in it. The full ear is the lowliest;
the full head the most humble.
943
Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.
--_Chrysostom._
944
Hunger is the mother of impatience and anger.
--_Zimmerman._
945
They must hunger in frost who spring-time have lost.
--_German._
946
The full stomach cannot comprehend the hungry one.
947
Wait is a hard word to the hungry.
--_From the German._
948