History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten. ...What is interesting is brought forward as if it had been central and efficacious in the march of events, and harmonies are turned into causes. Kings and generals are endowed with motives appropriate to what the historian values in their actions; plans are imputed to them prophetic of their actual achievements, while the thoughts that really preoccupied them remain buried in absolute oblivion.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Beware of long arguments and long beards.

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.

In this world we must either institute conventional forms of expression or else pretend that we have nothing to express; the choice lies between a mask and a figleaf.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.