The friends who frequent it

Keeping Mr. Emerson's House by Paige Willaims in the September 15, 2010 New York Times. A couple of Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes. Referring to his home, his goal was to

crowd so many books and papers and, if possible, wise friends, into it that it shall have as much wit as it can carry.

and

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.