Help, when we meet them,
Lame dogs over stiles.

876

It is not enough to help an erring brother out of the mire,—we must help to get him upon a rock.

877

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Gibbon.

878

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

Cicero.