People need books, but they don't know they need them. Generally they are not aware that the books they need are in existence. - Roger Mifflin - Christopher Morley

Life, as parents know, can be supported on very little sleep.

I used to regard dish-washing merely as an ignoble chore, a kind of hateful discipline which had to be undergone with knitted brow and brazen fortitude. When my wife went away the first time, I erected a reading stand and an electric light over the sink, and used to read while my hands went automatically through base gestures of purification.

But, as our friend Samuel Butler says, he that is stupid in little will also be stupid in much.