Reform, like charity, must begin at home.
My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.
By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.
Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?