Simplicity

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone”

“A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart”

“An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way”

“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in every thing”

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery”

“Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black”

“Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born”

“Brevity is the soul of wit”

“Confine yourself to the present”

“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not”

“Don't think. Feel. It is like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory”

“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out”

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense”

“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair”

“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter”

“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual”

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived”

“In the woods, we return to reason and faith”

“In wildness is the preservation of the world”

“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye”

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing”

“Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. The ages have been at work on it, and man can only mar it”

“Let us cultivate our garden”

“Men have become the tools of their tools”

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well”

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture”

“Our strategy in going after this army is very simple. First we are going to cut it off, and then we are going to kill it”

“Premature optimization is the root of all evil”

“Put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket”

“Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent”

“Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech”

“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand”

“Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different”

“Success ultimately rests on small things, lots of small things”

“That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest”

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched”

“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do”

“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities”

“The perfect is the enemy of the good”

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid”

“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see”

“Very little is needed to make a happy life”

“We should not spoil what we have by desiring what we do not have, but remember that what we have too was the gift of fortune”