No, Sir, you will have much more influence by giving or lending money where it is wanted, than by hospitality.
Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.
Life protracted is protracted woe.
He that wishes to see his country robbed of its rights cannot be a patriot.
Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.
To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.