“The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”

“Ah, good conversation — there's nothing like it, is there? The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”

“The only way to not think about money is to have a great deal of it."You might as well say that the only way not to think about air is to have enough to breathe.”

“So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.”

“She had always thought of love as something confused and furtive, and he made it as bright and open as the summer air.”

“Her whole being dilated in an atmosphere of luxury. It was the background she required, the only climate she could breathe in.”

“Real reading is reflex action; the born reader reads as unconsciously as he breathes; and, to carry the analogy a degree farther, reading is no more a virtue than breathing.”