"The rule for hospitality and Irish "help,"..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The lover is made happier by his love than the object of his affection.”

“A sleeping child gives me the impression of a traveler in a very far country.”

“Culture opens the sense of beauty.”

“Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.”

“The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it”

“True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests.”

“Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.”

“I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids.”

“When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.”