Humility is a virtue, and it is a virtue innate in guests.

People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.

When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.

One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.