I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.

Sarah Orne Jewett
About This Quote

This quote is an excerpt from chapter seventeen of The Scarlet Letter. It is also one of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s most famous literary works. We learn in this passage that a person can fall into a state of despair when reading too many books. The person has become so wrapped up in the world of the stories he has read that he has failed to appreciate the reality of his own life.

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