This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun, And the animals; despise riches; Give alms to every one that asks; Stand up for the stupid and crazy; Devote your income and labor to others; Hate tyrants; Argue not concerning God; Have patience and indulgence toward the people; Take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, Or to any man or number of men; Go freely with powerful uneducated persons, And with the young, and with the mothers of the young; Gather the family around you, And dine and play your songs, Dance with your neighbors, and sing with your neighbor’s kids.

• Walt Whitman