There are persons who are never easy unless they are putting your books and papers in order--that is, according to their notions of the matter--and hide things lest they should be lost, where neither the owner nor anybody else can find them. This is a sort of magpie faculty. If anything is left where you want it, it is called litter. There is a pedantry in housewifery, as well as in the gravest concerns. Abraham Tucker complained that whenever his maid servant had been in his library, he could not see comfortably to work again for several days.
William HazlittTruth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.
William HazlittThe greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.
William HazlittThe greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
William Hazlitt