From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice.
Honor
Jack Lepa, a writer and bookdealer, describing the heroes of detective novels.
The hard-boiled hero is committed to the concept of doing the honorable thing, no matter what the consequences. He is unable to define the
Benjamin Franklin
Honour, worthily obtained, is in its nature a personal thing, and incommunicable to any but those who had some share in obtaining it.