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 with it -- that is the tragedy. You cannot serve God and Mammon.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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