“If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.”

1940s, Religion and Science: Irreconcilable? (1948)
Context: The moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the community and its individuals, since otherwise this community is bound to perish. A people that were to honor falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long.

As quoted in The Life and Writings of Thomas Jefferson : Including All of His Important Utterances on Public Questions (1900) by Samuel E. Forman, p. 429
Posthumous publications

Written on the death of his wife, Ellen. As quoted in Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur, ch. 8, Thomas C. Reeves (1975).
1880s

Source: Arabella and the Battle of Venus (2017), Chapter 12, “Marieville” (p. 184)

In a conversation with Günther von Kluge, August 1944 (quoted in a book brennt paris? - adolf hitler)

Letter to Aysel Şengün (2001)
Context: I am what you wish for, but unfortunately you must still wait so little until we will be together again. I did not flee from you, but I did what I had to do. You should be very proud of it, it is an honor, and you will see the result, and everybody will be happy.

As quoted in Epistles No. 82, by Seneca the Younger

Speech at the Charleston Bar Dinner (May 10, 1847); reported in Edward Everett, ed., The Works of Daniel Webster (1851), Vol. II, p. 394