"As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the gods of the market-place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the gods of the copybook headings, I notice, outlast them all."

—Rudyard Kipling

(n.b. I mostly endorse Abadar and actively disendorse the message of the above poem.)