Honour is manly decency. The shame of being found wanting in it means everything to us. Is this, then, the indefinable, the sacred thing?
Alfred de VignyThe existence of the soldier, next to capital punishment, is the most grievous vestige of barbarism which survives among men.
Alfred de VignyNo writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
Alfred de Vigny