“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”

“Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.”

“None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.”

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”

“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”

“A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return”

“Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.”