Most men and women can talk well if they have the right sort of listeners.

If the hearer is unsympathetic the best talker becomes dumb.

Hosts who remember this will always be appreciated.
As a rule, a dinner conversation is seldom worth remembering, which is a pity.

Man, the most sensible of all animals, can talk nonsense better than all the rest of his tribe.

Perhaps the flow of words may be as steady as the eastward flow of the Yang-tse-Kiang in my own country, but the memory only retains a recollection of a vague, undefined--what?
The conversation like the flavors provided by the cooks has been evanescent.