And all at Worcester but the honour lost.

Be not ashamed of thy virtues; honor's a good brooch to wear in a man's hat at all times.

Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails and impious men bear away, The post of honor is a private station.

Give me, kind Heaven, a private station, A mind serene for contemplation: Title and profit I resign; The post of honor shall be mine.

Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads. His cares must still be double to his joys, In any dignity.

Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it.

If thou desire to purchase honor with thy wealth, consider first how that wealth became thine; if thy labor got it, let thy wisdom keep it; if oppression found it, let repentanc ...

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will v ...

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.