_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 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.