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

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls

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

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doub

By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry