There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called conscience.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their judgments upon that which seems

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, and be each critic the good-natured man

The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.

A prince can mak a belted knight, A marquis, duke, and a' that; But an honest man's aboon his might: Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.

A man's a man for a' that!