A sovereign doth honour a subject with whatsoever title, or office, or employment, or action that he himself will have taken for a sign of his will to honour him. Honourable is whatsoever possession, action, or quality is an argument and sign of power. And therefore to be honoured, loved, or feared of many is honourable, as arguments of power. To be honoured of few or none, dishonourable. Ill and losses, dishonourable.
Riches are honourable, for they are power.
Pusillanimity, parsimony, fear, diffidence, are dishonourable. Timely resolution, or determination of what a man is to do, is honourable, as being the contempt of small difficulties and dangers. Actions or words that proceed from error, ignorance, or folly, dishonourable. But if it seem to proceed from a purpose to appear grave, it is dishonourable. On the contrary, obscurity is dishonourable.