The Crooked Timber of Humanity
O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie usTo see oursels as ithers see us!It wad frae mony a blunder free us,An’ foolish notion:What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us,An’ ev’n devotion! –Robert Burns, “To A Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church”