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.

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

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.

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 that is purely scientific.

Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism, laziness and irrationality of men and women.

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