This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself. Keep your mind open to the influences of nature. Receive new thoughts with hospitality. Let us advance.

There is no hospitality like understanding.

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.

To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

It is equally offensive to speed a guest who would like to stay and to detain one who is anxious to leave.

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

Withdraw thy foot from they neighbor's house; lest he be weary of thee, and so hate thee.

When hospitality becomes an art, it loses its very soul.

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.

The lamp was no longer giving any light beyond its own daylighted chimney, and Mrs. Gudger put it out. Even now, with the hot load of the breakfast inside me, I was stiff with cold and was not yet well awake.

What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?