Bokelskere.no

... launching forth into a long and extremely bitter dissertation on the various ways persons of no intellectual conscience have of ill-treating books,

I will not go so far as to say that not to return books punctually is sinful, though deep down in my soul I think it is, but anyhow it is a symptom of moral slackness.

He was a gentle youth who loved quiet things, quiet places, placid people, kind dogs, books, canaries even, if they did not sing too loud.