"In an article on Bunyan lately published..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.”

“Remember that I too am mortal.”

“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.”

“We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago.”

“To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.”

“Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is not literature bores me and I hate it. I lack all aptitude for family life except, at best, as an observer. I have no family feeling and visitors make me almost feel as though I were maliciously being attacked.”

“When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.”

“Reading musses up my mind.”

“Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.”