Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Honor
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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
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The civil authority, or that part of it which remained faithful to their trust and true to the ends of the covenant, did, in answer to their consciences, turn out a tyrant, in a way which the Christians in aftertimes will mention with honor, and all tyrants in the world look at with fear.
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The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.
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No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
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Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound to speak one word more than he has actually and veritably got to say. Nay, rather every man is admonished and enjoined by the laws of honor, and even of personal ease, to stop short of that point; and at all events to hold his peace and take to his pipe again the instant he has spoken his meaning, if he chance to have any.
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There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,-insincerity, unbelief.
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Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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