“Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty”
“Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature.”
“Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.”
“Men and swords. My father said that if you put any able-bodied man, no matter how peaceful, into a room with a sword and a practice dummy and leave him alone, eventually the man would pick up the sword and try to stab the dummy. It is human nature.”
“Nature is what we know / Yet have not art to say / So impotent our wisdom is / To her simplicity.”