Prosperity knits a man to the World. He feels that he is 'finding his place in it,' while actually it is finding its place in him. His increasing reputation, his widening circle of acquaintances, his sense of importance, the growing pressure of absorbing and agreeable work, build in him a sense of being really at home on earth, which is just what we want.
— Uncle Screwtape to his young protege Wormwood (via C. S. Lewis in the "Screwtape Letters")