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

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

The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

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

Letters are things, not pictures of things.

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

If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.

Continued experiment with dog today.

Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.

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

The value of the creative faculty derives from the fact that faculty is the primary mark of man. To deprive man of its exercise is to reduce him to subhumanity.

When you were making excuses someone else was making enterprise.

But if you take pleasure in morality, then you are always in deficit.

The formula for complete happiness is to be very busy with the unimportant.

Westward Ho!

Whoever has not ascended mountains knows little of the beauties of Nature.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

The best part of you ran down your mother's legs.

I did the twenty-three-hour Nose route to the top of El Capitan in eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes, I can get over this.

The rats are underneath the piles/ The Jew is underneath the lot.