Hospitality

• What is there more kindly than the feelings between host and guest? — Aeschylus
• One cannot have too large a party. — Jane Austen
• Use hospitality one to another without grudging. — Bible, 1 Peter 4:9
• Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Why don't you come up sometime, 'n see me? — Mae West [She Done Him Wrong]
• A host is like a general: it takes a mishap to reveal his genius. — Horace
• Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither—these make the finest company in the world. — L.P. Smith
• The men and women who make the best boon companions seem to have given up hope of doing something else. They have, perhaps, tried to be poets and painters; they have tried to be actors, scientists, and musicians. But some defect of talent or opportunity has cut them off from their pet ambition and has thus left them with leisure to take an interest in the lives of others. Your ambitious man is selfish. No matter how secret his ambition may be, it makes him keep his thoughts at home. The heartbroken people—if I may use the word in a mild benevolent sense—the people whose wills are subdued to fate, give us consolation, recognition, and welcome. — Chapman