Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.

The taste for novel-reading is like that for liquor or opium. It is never satiated. It grows with gratification. A confirmed novel-reader is almost as difficult to reform as a confirmed inebriate or opium-eater. The influence upon the mind is most damaging and pernicious.
J.H. Kellog. Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.