Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically--to those who hardly think about us in return.
It is the bad people who need to have principles to restrain them.
It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards.
It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else.
Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.
He was neither clever nor sensitive, but he was loyal--stubbornly sometimes, and even annoyingly and stupidly so in later life.