Who said “The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly…”?

“Death rather than disgrace.”

“The post of honor is a private station.”

“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”

“As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.”

“Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.”

“We seldom call anybody lazy, but such as we reckon inferior to us, and of whom we expect some service.”

“If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigor as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honor of our wives and daughters?”

“Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.”

“People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.”

“No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.”

“There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.”