symphonic

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 study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; 

to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; 

to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never 

-- in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, 

grow up through the common. 

This is to be my symphony.         

William Henry Channing (1841)