One does not plead for a dead man, because the lawyer of a dead man is nothing but a man who remembers.

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!

I read the label underneath, That telleth me whereto I must; I see the sentence eke that saith 'Remember, man, that thou art dust!' But yet, alas, but seldom I Do think indeed that I must die - My ancestors are turned to clay, And many of my mates ar