Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Romans13:7^8.

   It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in. The tribute of the current to the source.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  'West-Running Brook'.

Gula carum tributem exigit, sed vilissimum reddit, quia quanto sunt delicaciora cibavia, tanto fetidiora sunt stercora. Gluttony demands a heavy tribute but gives the basest returns: the more delicate the food, the more reeking the dung.

-Pope Innocent III originally Lotario de' Conti di Segni
  De Miseraria Condicionis Humanae, bk.2, ch.20.

L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend a'   la vertu. Hypocrisy is a tribute which vice pays to virtue.

-La Rochefoucauld, Fran c° ois, 6th Duc de
  Maximes, no.218.

Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven; To his feet thy tribute bring. Ransomed, healed, restored, forgiven, Who like me his praise should sing?

-Lyte, Henry Francis
  'Praise, my Soul, the King of Heaven'.

The Harper smiled, well pleased; for ne'er Was flattery lost on poet's ear: A simple race! they waste their toil For the vain tribute of a smile.

-Scott, Sir Walter
  The Lay of the Last Minstrel, canto 4, conclusion.