[T]his free and easy old-bachelor sort of life is quite full of fun and jollity. Pease and myself room together; and everything like order and neatness is banished from our presence as a nuisance--old letters and old boots and shoes, duds clean and duds dirty, books and newspapers, tooth-brushes, shoe-brushes, and clothes-brushes, all heaped together on chairs, settees, etc. , in dusty and "most admired confusion. " Now, what is there imaginable in clean, tidy private life equal to this?
Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.