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- Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
- Tillotson
- You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
- Modern man's loss of a sense of being sinful doesn't spring from a feeling that he is inherently good. Rather, it springs from his feeling of being inherently ineffectual.
- Brendan Francis
- Men are punished by their sins, not for them.
- Elbert Hubbard (1856 - 1915)
- But he who never sins can little boast
Compared to him who goes and sins no more. - N. P. Willis
- The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life.
- John Macy
- We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
- Norman Vincent Peale (1898 - 1993)
- The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
- Hans Hofmann
- The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are.
- Alford
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