Simplicity is the glory of expression.

The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and the roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively, as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned.

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way — without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

It’s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them.

A great sentiment can be rendered immediately. Dream on it and look for the simplest form in which you can express it.

j'ai bien senti le beau dans le simple,

What can be said can and should always be said more and more simply and clearly.

Grant me the power of saying things
Too simple and too sweet for words!

There is nothing more pure and beautiful than a person who always speaks truthfully with a childlike heart.

their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

For simple light is perhaps still more beautiful than colors.

It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.