“It is never easy to give honor where great honor is due.”

“Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.”

“The second office of the government is honorable and easy, the first is but a splendid misery.”

“A son honors his father,
And a servant his master.
If then I am the Father,
Where is my honor?
And if I am a Master,
Where is My reverence?”

“Despair is a great incentive to honorable death.”
Desperatio magnum ad honeste moriendum incitamentum.

“The law of honor: Go along only on the paths of honor. Fight, and never be a coward. Leave the path of infamy to others. Better to fall in an honorable fight than win by infamy.”

“Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.”

“I have never had to look up a definition of honor. I knew instinctively what it was. It is something I had the day I was born, and I never had to question where it came from or by what right it was mine. If I was stripped of my honor, I would choose death as certainly and unemotionally as I clean my shoes in the morning. Honor is the presence of God in man.”

“I learned that with great responsibility often come great honor and opportunity.”

“To live honorably, to harm no one, to give to each his own.”
Honeste vivere, alterum non laedere, suum cuique tribuere.