• From “An Essay on Man,” Epistle IV.
      HONOR and shame from no condition rise;
    Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
    Fortune in men has some small difference made,
    One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade;
    The cobbler aproned, and the parson gowned,
    The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned.
    “What differ more (you cry) than...

  •    'TIS strange, while all to greatness homage pay,

    So few should know the goddess they obey.

    That men should think a thousand things the same,

    And give contending images one name.

    Not Greece, in all her temples' wide abodes,

    Held a more wild democracy of Gods

    Than various deities we serve,...