To live content with small means;

To seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion;

To be worthy, 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 Henry Channing's Symphony: from the 1906 collection, "Editorials From The Hearst Newspapers"