High as Haman.[73 T.J.]

"Will hang as high as Haman."

--Tennyson, The Foresters, Act IV, Scene 1.

A Hoary Head is a Crown of Glory.[502 G.B.]

"Honoured and even fair,
Shines in the eye of the mind
the crown of the silver hair."

--Stevenson, In Memoriam E. H.

A House Divided Against Itself.[171 L.J.]

"'A house divided against itself cannot stand.'
I believe this Government cannot endure
permanently, half slave and half free. I do not
expect the Union to be dissolved--I do not expect
the house to fall--but I do expect it will cease
to be divided."

--Lincoln, Speech before the Illinois
State Convention, June 16, 1858
.

House not Made with Hands.[506 L.J.]