Joseph Addison Honor Quotations

Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire.

The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature, that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble, or in such as have been cultivated by good examples, or a refined education.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.

In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.

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