
“The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.”
Source: Her Own Rules
“The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence.”
On Dramatic Poetry (1758)
“True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.”
Source: A Voice in the Wind
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
As quoted in Oscar Wilde : An Idler's Impression (1917) http://books.google.com/books?id=ddAVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=edgar+saltus+wilde&cd=3#v=snippet&q=satisfied&f=false by Edgar Saltus, p. 20
Source: Galileo's Dream (2009), Ch. 15, p. 354; note: though this statement is incorporated into the story as one Galileo spoke, it is actually a quotation of one he historically made in his Dialogue Concerning The Two Chief World Systems http://www4.ncsu.edu/~kimler/hi322/Dialogue-extracts.html as translated by Stillman Drake.