March, 191! 
too long for general use, would be suitable for a frieze or 
to run above a dado of a large dining-room :— 
“We may live without poety, music and art; 
We may live without conscience, and live without heart ; 
We may live without friends, we may live without books, 
But civilized men cannot live without cooks. 
We may live without books—what is knowledge but griev- 
ing? 
We may live without hope—what is hope but deceiving? 
We may live without love—what is passion but pining? 
But where is the man who can live without dining?” 
In a room that has a dinner bell in a permanent place 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
105 
LIBRARY 
Mottoes in a library as a rule should apply to books, or 
have a somewhat intellectual thread running through them. 
One of the accompanying illustrations shows a delightful 
little corner seat of a simple library. Under the book 
shelves built above the seat are carved these words from 
Chaucer :-— 
“And as for me, though that I konne but lyte, 
On bokes for to rede I me delyte.” 
‘Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; 
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.” 
—Cowper. 
A motto is placed over a seat in the den 
these words by Byron would be appropriate, if applied 
either on the wall near the bell, or on the stand upon which 
it is kept:— : 
“That all-softening, overpowering knell, 
The tocsin of the soul—the dinner bell.” 
“He that banquets every day, never makes a good meal.” 
These lines from Burns make a charming motto for a 
dining-room :— 
“Some hae meat and canna’ eat, 
And some wad eat who want it; 
But we hae meat and we can eat, 
So let the Lord be thankit.” 
—Burns. 
“‘Absence of occupation is not rest, 
A mind quite vacant is a mind distress’ d.”’ 
—Cowper. 
‘There is no friend so faithful as a good book.”’ 
“Choose an author as you choose a friend.” 
‘““Books should to one of these four ends conduce, 
For wisdom, piety, delight or use.” 
“Reading maketh a full man, 
Conference a ready man, and 
Writing an exact man.” 
“Dreams, books, are each a world; and books we 
know, i 
Ly SR 
