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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.

Men have always shown a dim knowledge of their better potentialities by paying homage to those purest leaders who taught the simplest and most inclusive rules for an undivided mankind.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.

Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.

Men are what they see and judge; though some do not fill up their light, yet none go beyond it.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.