I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped.
I honor health as the first Muse.
Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in all thy deeds.
The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.
Ability without honor has no value.
Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.
We honor the rich because they have externally the freedom, power, and grace which we feel to be proper to man, proper to us.
The reverence for the deeds of our ancestors is a treacherous sentiment. Their merit was not to reverence the old, but to honor the present moment; and we falsely make them excuses of the very habit which they hated and defied.
Honor and fortune exist for him who always recognizes the neighborhood of the great, always feels himself in the presence of high causes.
How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer the lawgiver, but the sycophant, ducking to the giddy opinion of a reckless public.