That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him..

Continued experiment with dog today..

Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- l….

There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools..

Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the cons….

If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself..

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist..

Catholics are necessarily at war with this age. That we are not more conscious of the fact, that we so often endeavor to make an impossible peace wit….

Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to..

If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself..

Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes m….

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word..

The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise is to reduce him to s….

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all t….

Letters are things, not pictures of things..

Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it..

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes; without religion he cannot know why..

It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal..

The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences. No one can say that the O’s roundness appeals to us o….

Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to. But this is not to say that because we have got used to something demonstrably ….

Ultimately there is no happiness in a world in which things are not as good as they can be..