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

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.

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.

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

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

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 less legible than something else would be if we could get used to it, we should make no effort to scrap the existing thing. This was done by the Florentines and Romans of the fifteenth century; it requires simply good sense in the originators & good will in the rest of us.