It is not titles that honor men, but men honor the titles.
In effect it seemed to him that, though honor might possess certain advantages, yet shame had others, and not inferior: advantages, even, that were well-nigh boundless in their scope.
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
Give me honorable enemies rather than ambitious ones, and I’ll sleep more easily by night.
Better keep yourself clean and bright: you are the window through which you must see the world.
And if your life is a suitable exchange for my honor, tell me why my honor is not a suitable exchange for your life?
A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man’s life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose.