Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
Aristotle
The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?
Saint Augustine
Even a poor man can receive honors.
Sophocles
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin