“I am free of all vices. I do not gamble, drink, smoke, race, or bet. The worst that I know of myself is an addiction to bookstores, print-shops, and picture dealers’ haunts.”
Henry Ward Beecher
[Quoted in: Christoper Benfey. A Summer of Hummingbirds. New York: The Penguin Press, 2008, p. 64.]
