There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent

For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

Nil magnum nisi bonum. No greatness without goodness.

[T]here is no greatness in things. Things cannot be great. The only greatness is unselfish love.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.

Whether it be politics, philosophy, religion or anything else, the once cardinal characteristic of truth is simplicity. The greatest truths that that man ever heard where spoken in the language of simplicity in the streets of Jerusalem. Simplicity and truth stand together, and whenever you get complexity, beware, because there is a falsity somewhere.

All great truths are simple, and that was both great and true itself.

If any man seeks greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

But in simplicity lies truth. In simplicity lies power.

True greatness does not consist so much in doing extraordinary things, as in conducting ordinary affairs with a noble demeanor and from a right motive. It is necessary and most profitable to remember the advice to Titus, "Showing all good fidelity in all things."