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.