"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art."

"Less is more."

"I was particularly won over by his sweet disposition, by his general kindness, by his simplicity, and by his friendliness."

"When true simplicity is gain'd To bow and to bend we shan't be asham'd, To turn, turn will be our delight 'Till by turning, turning we come round right."

"'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free."

"Simplicity — the art of maximizing the amount of work not done — is essential."

"Clancy got a very simple view of the world. Good versus evil. Evil seems to get the upper hand. Good triumphs with vastly superior automatic weapons!"

"Do nothing but what is necessary. ... By this rule a man has the double pleasure of making his actions good and few into the bargain. For the greater part of what we say and do, being unnecessary, if this were but taken away, we should have both more leisure and less disturbance. And therefore before a man sets forward, he should ask himself this question, "Am I not upon the verge of something unnecessary?""

"Simplicity is very complicated."

"Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man."

"When love speaks in silence, even the wind learns to listen."

"Grosse Seelen dulden still."

"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact."

"In some causes silence is dangerous; so if any know of conspiracies against their country or king, or any that might greatly prejudice their neighbor, they ought to discover it."

"The silence that is in the starry sky."

"No sound is uttered,—but a deep And solemn harmony pervades The hollow vale from steep to steep, And penetrates the glades."

"Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence."

"And I too talk, and lose the touch I talk of. Surely, after all, The noblest answer unto such Is kindly silence when they brawl."

"Of every noble work the silent part is best, Of all expression, that which cannot be expressed."

"But let me silent be: For silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above."

"The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care."

"To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound."

"Woman, to women silence is the best ornament."

"Le silence du peuple est la leçon des rois."

"Macaulay is like a book in breeches * * * He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful."

"Shallow brookes murmur moste, deepe silent slide away."

"Silence! Oh, well are Death and Sleep and Thou Three brethren named, the guardians gloomy-winged, Of one abyss, where life and truth and joy Are swallowed up."

"Tacere multis discitur vitæ malis."

"Wise Men say nothing in dangerous times."

"Bekker schweigt in sieben Sprachen."

"Doch große Seelen dulden still."

"Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labuntur."

"Silence more musical than any song."

"The silente man still suffers wrong."

"Silence in love bewrays more woe Than words, though ne'er so witty; A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity."

"La douleur qui se tait n'en est que plus funeste."

"Said Periander, "Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage.""

"Remember what Simonides said,—that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken."

"Silence sleeping on a waste of ocean."

"Exigua est virtus præstare silentia rebus; At contra, gravis est culpa tacenda loqui."

"Sæpe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet."

"Sed taciti fecere tamen convicia vultus."

"Be silent and safe—silence never betrays you."

"Silence sweeter is than speech."

"That silence is one of the great arts of conversation is allowed by Cicero himself, who says, there is not only an art, but even an eloquence in it."

"Nothing is more useful than silence."

"Dixisse me, inquit, aliquando pœnituit, tacuisse nunquam."