“We will seek elegance rather than luxury, refinement rather than fashion. We will seek to be worthy more than respectable, wealthy and not rich. We will study hard, think quietly, talk gently, and act frankly. We will listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with an open heart. We will bear all things cheerfully, do all things bravely await occasions and hurry never. In a word we will let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious grow up through the common.”  -William Ellery Channing-