We are not for making shoes, so the shoemakers can have jobs, but so we can wear the shoes.
We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera--or war or fiction.
[Of the ether] it is no greater mystery at all events than the shoemakers' wax.