Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 168.
Honour and shame from no condition rise;
Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 193.
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow;
The rest is all but leather or prunello.
Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 203.
What can ennoble sots or slaves or cowards?
Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.
Essay on Man. Epistle iv. Line 215.