Swan's Way

I have started again, my third time of reading this my favourite book. I have also decided to try to record my favourite quotes.
This is the first, of Grandma, who has bought for our narator four volumes of Georges Sand for his birthday, and Mamma is going to read one of them to the young M.

The truth was that she could never make up her mind to purchase anything from which no intellectual profit was to be derived, and, above all, that profit which good things bestowed on us by teaching us to seek our pleasures elsewhere than in the barren satisfaction of worldly wealth.