To live content with small means to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion to be worhy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart to study hard, to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony - William Ellery Channing