“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.”

“If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”

“But we're so different, you know: she likes being good and I like being happy.”

“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.”

“Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.”

“In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”

“Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?”