"Every profession is a conspiracy against the..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“The love of economy is the root of all virtue.”

“My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.”

“Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.”

“I have heard of a minister, who had been a fisherman, being settled in Bridgewater for as long a time as he could tell a cod froma haddock. Generous as it seems, this condition would empty most country pulpits forthwith, for it is long since the fishers of men were fishermen.”

“Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.”

“Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.”

“All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.”

“Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder. "Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply. "Such beauty has power," Adelaida said hotly. "You can overturn the world with such beauty.”

“The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.”