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

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is...

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is...

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must...

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must...

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading...

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading...

Fire is the most tolerable third party

Fire is the most tolerable third party

All good things are wild, and free.

All good things are wild, and free.

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where...

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where...

It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.

It takes two to speak truth, one to speak and another to hear.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to...

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to...

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit...

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit...

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his...

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his...

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...

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we...

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we...

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up...

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up...

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song...

Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song...

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they...

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they...

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading...

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading...

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the...

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the...