A house is not a home

Posted by Joe April 11, 2009 at 19:58In reply to A house is not a home posted by Clay on April 11, 2009 at 07:12:

A house is not a home.

Does this phrase go back farther than the Bacharach song or the Polly Adler book? It seems like it should be an older maxim, but I can't seem to find any earlier references.

The Preacher..ý - Page 269
Sermons, English - 1833

Her house is not a home, she affords no comfort to her hushand, no instruction
to her children, no copiable example to her neighbour ; hut lives, ...