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Quotes from Eric Gill

If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.
~ Eric Gill
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.
~ Eric Gill
Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.
~ Eric Gill
There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.
~ Eric Gill
Continued experiment with dog today.
~ Eric Gill
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.
~ Eric Gill