“There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline.”

Set a page in Fournier against another in Caslon and another in Plantin and it is as if you heard three different people delivering the same discourse – each with impeccable pronunciation and clarity, yet each through the medium of a different personality.

People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear.

When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.

Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.

Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas.

There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.

At whatever time highly skilled physicians shall have developed the healing of illnesses by means of foods, and shall make provision for simple foods, and shall prohibit humankind from living as slaves to their lustful appetites.

People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence.

It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.

I know that with consecration on the part of believers, separation from the world, disentanglement from enslaving sins, and a mighty baptism of the Holy Spirit, the church would become a conquering power in the world

Music that is born complex is not inherently better or worse than music that is born simple.

The business of making a photograph may be said in simple terms to consist of three elements: the objective world (whose permanent condition is change and disorder), the sheet of paper on which the picture will be realized, and the experience which brings them together.

A simple yet profound way to create a healthy body, a stress-free mind, and a peaceful sense of well-being.

Start with something simple and small, then expand over time. If people call it a ‘toy’ you’re definitely onto something.