The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.
Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity.