Garamond reminds me in tone of certain over-educated men and women for whom an inward smile signals the most passionate manner of emotional expression. Not because they live their lives in willful sadness, or madness, like those Dante placed low in the Inferno, and have wearied of this world before even they really knew it. But because they have attained a capacity of controlled intellectual passion and understatement is the only emphasis possible to their thoughts.