"Fast asleep? It is no matter; Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber; Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies, Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound."

"This sleep is sound indeed, this is a sleep That from this golden rigol hath divorc'd So many English kings."

"Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee And hushed with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?"

"O polish'd perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night! sleep with it now! Yet not so sound and half so deeply sweet As he whose brow with homely biggen bound Snores out the watch of night."

"Bid them come forth and hear me, Or at their chamber-door I'll beat the drum Till it cry sleep to death."

"O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness?"

"He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache."

"To sleep! perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause."

"O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her And be her sense but as a monument."

"Sleep shall neither night nor day Hang upon his pent-house lid."

"Sleep the sleep that knows not breaking, Morn of toil, nor night of waking."

"On your eyelids crown the god of sleep, Charming your blood with pleasing heaviness: Making such difference 'twixt wake and sleep, As is the difference betwixt day and night, The hour before the heavenly-harness'd team Begins his golden progress in the east."

"Methought I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep."

"Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast."

"Meryon succeeded in reaching the heights of his art, and achieved both splendour and simplicity through breadth of vision allied to technical skill."

"If we study the history of science we see happen two inverse phenomena, so to speak. Sometimes simplicity hides under complex appearances; sometimes it is the simplicity which is apparent, and which disguises extremely complicated realities. ...What is more complicated than the confused movements of the planets? What simpler than Newton's law? ...In the kinetic theory of gases, one deals with molecules moving with great velocities, whose paths, altered by incessant collisions, have the most capricious forms... The observable result is Mariotte's simple law. ...The law of great numbers has reestablished simplicity in the average. ...No doubt, if our means of investigation should become more and more penetrating, we should discover the simple under the complex, then the complex under the simple, then again the simple under the complex, and so on, without our being able to foresee what will be the last term. We must stop somewhere, and that science may be possible, we must stop when we have found simplicity. This is the only ground on which we can rear the edifice of our generalizations."

"Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity—I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly."

"If you can't reduce a difficult engineering problem to just one 8-1/2 x 11-inch sheet of paper, you will probably never understand it."

"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."

"Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate."

"To gain freedom is to gain simplicity."

"If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love."

"Christianity does not proceed from the simple in order then to become interesting, witty, profound, a poet, a philosopher, etc. No it is just the opposite: here one begins and then becomes more and more simple, arrives at the simple."

"The greatest truths are the simplest: and so are the greatest men."

"Keep it simple, stupid."

"Have pity on my simplicity, for I am but a mortal."

"All religions are incorporated in the principle of Truth, Simplicity and Love."

"Science can be very complicated, but there is nothing in its definition that implies it must be, or requires descriptions of science to be written in any sort of special language that only scientists understand. ... The detail and implications of Einstein's theory of relativity may be beyond the understanding of many of us, but it can be described in simple language, which is what Einstein himself used in his own writing."

"To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art."

"In a country as hot as India, a person really requires very few essentials in order to live: one vegetarian meal a day, bread rice, vegetables and lentils, two pieces of clothing to wear, a mat, a blanket, a lota, a water container - just enough to fulfill our bodily requirements. In fact, we don't have a bathroom, shower or toilet here but have to go down to the river to wash, and for everything else we squat among the stones. Cooking takes place outside on an open fire and we sleep on the floor, tucked up on a mat in any place we can find. There is no need for shoes, for it is better to walk barefoot, nor a suitcase because it is sufficient to wrap one's clothes up in a bundle. Mother India is a great teacher of simplicity."

"Anselm: Stop being so God Damn humble … You know God damn well that … that humility is defiance … simplicity today is sophisticated … simplicity is the ultimate sophistication today."

"Generally nature hangs out a sign of simplicity in the face of a fool."

"Simplicity is a part of faith."

"Nature has a great simplicity and, therefore, a great beauty."

"Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher."

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

"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."

"I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas."

"What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all."

"My views are near to those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order and harmony which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem — the most important of all human problems."

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler."