This night I hold an old accustomed feast,
Whereto I have invited many a guest,
Such as I love; and you among the store,
One more, most welcome, makes my number more.
Romeo and Juliet, Act i. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
The atmosphere
Breathes rest and comfort and the many chambers
Seem full of welcomes.
Masque of Pandora. H.W. LONGFELLOW.
Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
Comedy of Errors, Act iii. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs,
When seasoned by love, which no rancor disturbs
And sweetened by all that is sweetest in life
Than turbot, bisque, ortolans, eaten in strife!
Lucile. LORD LYTTON (Owen Meredith).
Now good digestion wait on appetite,
And health on both!
Macbeth, Act iii. Sc. 4. SHAKESPEARE.
I've often wished that I had clear,
For life, six hundred pounds a year,
A handsome house to lodge a friend,
A river at my garden's end.
Imitation of Horace, Bk. II. Sat. 6. J. SWIFT.
True friendship's laws are by this rule exprest,
Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
Odyssey, Bk. XV. HOMER. Trans. of POPE.
HUMILITY.
Humility, that low, sweet root,
From which all heavenly virtues shoot.
Loves of the Angels: The Third Angel's Story. T. MOORE.
Content thyself to be obscurely good.
When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway,
The post of honor is a private station.
Cato, Act iv. Sc. 4. J. ADDISON.