Life and Literature Part 67

He that lives upon hopes will die fasting.

922

Hoping is the finest sort of courage and you can never have enough of it.

--_C. Wagner._

923

Who loses money, loses much; Who loses friends, loses more; Who loses hope, loses all: for he that wants hope is the poorest man alive.

924

Were it no for hope the heart wad break.

--_Scotch._

925

Our hopes often end in--hopes.

926

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

--_Longfellow._

927

Hope is sometimes a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

928

So we do but live, There's hope.

--_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. Sh.e.l.ley._

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 gra.s.s, 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 G.o.d's out-of-doors.