Echoes

The discovery of a new dish does more for the happiness of mankind than the discovery of a new star.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

In judging policies we should consider the results that have been achieved through them rather than the means by which they have been executed.

Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better — because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.

It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

Example is the best lesson there is.

Walking is man's best medicine.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Common sense in matters medical is rare, and is usually in inverse ratio to the degree of education.

I eat only what is enough to sustain my life. My food is bread, soup, an egg, and a little meat. And the amount I eat is no more than my body can easily digest.

Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract.

This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all Diseases and Miseries.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Do the duty which lies nearest thee, which thou knowest to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.