The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.
Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.
One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.
A hundred eyes were fixed on her, and half as many hearts lost to her.