Ralph Waldo Emerson on honor

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Mark Twain1835–1910

If I lose mine honour, I lose myself.

William Shakespeare1564–1616Antony and Cleopatra (1600s), Act III, scene 4, line 22.In context

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three, Chapter XVIII.