The eyes on the wall acquired a new expression, and in every one of those staring rounds I saw written, DON’T GO HOME.

– Charles Dickens

Great Expectations, Chapter 45. Pip spends a sleepless night in a seedy old inn at Covent Garden called the Hummums. Pip imagines the night light in the room as metaphorical eyes staring at him. He sees Wemmick’s note written in them telling him not to go home.