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.

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.

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

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 only because it is like that of an apple or of a girl’s breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things.

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

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