I am currently engaged in creating a new edition of Buchanan’s Dictionary of Quotations, following the international success of Buchanan’s Dictionary of Quotations for Right-Minded People (2010). Long out of print, and never made available as an ebook, used copies appear occasionally on Amazon and elsewhere, retailing at £100.00+.

One of the quotations in my next book will be from Samuel Butler (1835-1902), the English novelist and critic:

“Home Sweet Home must have been written by a bachelor.”

Home! Sweet Home! is a song adapted from American actor and dramatist John Howard Payne‘s 1823 opera Clari, or the Maid of Milan.

Payne never married. The song’s lyrics:

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam
Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home
A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there
Which seek thro’ the world, is ne’er met elsewhere
Home! Home!
Sweet, sweet home!
There’s no place like home
There’s no place like home!

An exile from home splendor dazzles in vain
Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again
The birds singing gaily that came at my call
And gave me the peace of mind dearer than all
Home, home, sweet, sweet home
There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home!

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