When friends are at your hearthside met,
Sweet courtesy has done its most
If you have made each guest forget
That he himself is not the host.


Hospitality; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 379.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes

When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.

When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.

When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.

When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.