Voluntary Simplicity

Famous quotes containing the words voluntary and/or simplicity:

    Her voluntary fruits, free without fees;
    Torquato Tasso (1544–1595)

    The Americans never use the word peasant, because they have no idea of the class which that term denotes; the ignorance of more remote ages, the simplicity of rural life, and the rusticity of the villager have not been preserved among them; and they are alike unacquainted with the virtues, the vices, the coarse habits, and the simple graces of an early stage of civilization.
    Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)