Quote

Honor is the reward of virtue.

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name.

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.

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

Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.