What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.
Alexander Pope, Daniel Clark (1824). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.58

What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards? Alas! not all the blood, of all the Howards.