Who said “The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble…”?

“Nothing is particularly hard if you subdivide it into small jobs.”

“Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood --for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories.”

“See it big, and keep it simple.”

“Seek simplicity but distrust it.”

“God always takes the simplest way.”

“Ideas too are a life and a world.”

“Virtue by premeditation isn't worth much.”

“First we have to believe, and then we believe.”

“Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.”

“Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.”

“Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.”