If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch;If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much;If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds’ worth of distance run—Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son! —Excerpt from “If” by Rudyard Kipling
