Read only the best books. There are plenty of them, far more than you will ever find time to read, and when they are to be had it is a pity to waste time on any others...Goethe once said of someone he knew: "He is a dull man. If he were a book, I would not read him". When you find that a book is poor, and does not give you even the bare facts you are in search of, waste no more time upon it.
— JAMES BRYCE, 1ST VISCOUNT BRYCE