You don't have to use hardware wallet. You can use paper wallet if you want. So, you don't have to think safety with paper wallet.
No doubt paper wallets are also very secure but the back draw of using paper wallet is that when you want to spend your coins then you have to import your private keys in any supported wallet, as the OP doesn't have trust in any random wallet so paper wallet with a combination of any random wallet won't be the best way for him to secure his assets. He needs some isolated environment to store his cryptocurrencies, in that case, hardware wallet could be the best choice.