Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! 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.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Topics: Simplicity Quotes

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish...

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish...

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a...

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a...

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old...

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old...

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for...

How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for...

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the...

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the...

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable...

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable...

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the...

If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the...

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that...

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that...

Faith never makes a confession.

Faith never makes a confession.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work...

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work...

It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in...

It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in...

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of...

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of...

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as they are injurious to...

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as they are injurious to...