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Madame, that you may know the state of the rest of my misfortune, there is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved.

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

Your word is a s good as the Bank, Sir.

Honour is but an itch in youthful blood Of doing acts extravagantly good.

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.

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

Honor is like an island, rugged and without shores; once we have left it, we can never return.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

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

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

Don't look for more honor than your learning merits.

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

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.