Quotes about Simplicity

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was.

it always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life, when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity—two of the best qualities that Heaven gives them—and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.

but such is the wisdom of simplicity!

For neither Man nor Angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through Heaven and Earth: And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems...

Give me a field where the unmowed grass grows...

Innocence is a kind of insanity

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

I believe that starting any business should be as easy as a 10-year-old starting a lemonade stand.

I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.

I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.

I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered;