Quotes about Honor

Young man, make your name worth something.

Good moral character is the first essential in a man.

Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can he avoided. . . . No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.

Dishonor waits on perfidy. A man should blush to think a falsehood; it is the crime of cowards.

We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.

The honor of a nation is its life.

Failure to honour God in the material realm cannot be compensated for by religiosity in the spiritual realm.

any one who had listened to Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyes in 1817. Only, Courfeyrac was an honourable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyes was very great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyes a district attorney, and in Courfeyrac a paladin.

It was said of him that he had once been for a short time in Bedlam; they had done him the honour to take him for a madman, but had set him free on discovering that he was only a poet. This story was probably not true; we have all to submit to some such legend about us.