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Thoughts of Home

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family. - Thomas Jefferson

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home. - Sir William Temple

Where there is a mother in the home, matters go well.- Amos Bronson Alcott.

A hundred men may make an encampment, but it takes a woman to make a home. - Chinese Proverb

There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort. - Jane Austen

This is the true nature of home - it is the place of Pease; the shelter, not only from injury, but from all terror, doubt, and division. - John Ruskin.

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. - Goethe

The home is the chief school of human virtues. - William Ellery Channing

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

My preceipt to all who build, is that that owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner. - Cicero

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which evry enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. - Samuel Johnson

Thank God for dirty dishes;
They have a tale to tell.
While other folk go hungry,
We're eating very well.
With home and health and happiness,
We shouldn't want to fuss;
For by this stack of evidence,
God's very good to us.


As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place. Pro 27:8

At home, you are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch on his throne. - Miguel de Cervantes

Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and bet upon that house, and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock. -Mathhew 7:24-25

Painting by Peggy Sibley "Red Vase I" from allposters.