Pastoral Resources

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

They are unique in the simplicity, the diversity, the related harmony of the forms of life that they enclose.

As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity.

The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

Simplicity is a great element of good breeding.

Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.

Simplicity makes me happy.