“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.”

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

“He had a confused sense that she must have cost a great deal to make, that a great many dull and ugly people must, in some mysterious way, have been sacrificed to produce her.”

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

“There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.”

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

“These Americans, under their forthcoming manner, their surface-gush, as some might call it, have an odd reticence about what goes on underneath.”