Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes About Hospitality

• There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pain, Kindness, Joy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.418, Рипол Классик

• Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

• Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Thank You, Lying, Honor

• Every body we know surrounds himself with a fine house, fine books, conservatory, gardens, equipage, and all manner of toys, as screens to interpose between himself and his guest. Does it not seem as if man was of a very sly, elusive nature, and dreaded nothing so much as a full rencontre front to front with his fellow?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Men, Garden

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.145, Graphic Arts Books

• I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion; one, fame, the other, desert; one, feats, the other, humility; one, lucre, the other, love; one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Real, Humility

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.246, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Faces, Visitors

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

• The rule for hospitality and Irish "help," is, to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessylearns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it, and the guests are well served.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Years, Guests, Dinner

• But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cities, Giving, Water

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.76, 谷月社

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