When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.

Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

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

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.

No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.