"What is there more kindly than the feeling between host and guest?" - AESCHYLUS, The Libation Bearers

"When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul." - MAX BEERBOHM, And Even Now

"Let brotherly love continue. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares." - BIBLE, Hebrews 13:1

"Fish and guests in three days are stale." - JOHN LYLY, Euphues

"For I, who hold sage Homer's rule the best,
Welcome the coming, speed the going guest."
- ALEXANDER POPE, Imitations of Horace

"Unbidden guests
Are often welcomest when they are gone."
- SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI, Part I

"A hundred thousand welcomes. I could weep
And I could laugh, I am light and heavy.
Welcome."
- SHAKESPEARE, Coriolanus