All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Everything is simpler than you think and yet more complex than you imagine.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.