Somerset Maugham  Of Human Bondage pg 274 “There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one’s means of livelihood. I have nothing but contempt for the people who despise money. They are hypocrites or fools. Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five….

W. Somerset Maugham   The Razor’s Edge  pg 269 “Reality. You can’t say what it is; you can only say what it isn’t. It’s inexpressible…It’s nowhere and everywhere. All things imply and depend upon it. It’s not a person, it’s not a thing, it’s not a cause. It has no qualities. It transcends permanence and change; whole…

W. Somerset Maugham  The Razor’s Edge   pg 207 “D’you remember how Jesus was led into the wilderness and fasted forty days? Then, when he was a-hungered, the devil came to him and said: If thou be the son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But Jesus resisted the temptation. Then the devil…