" What is the right use of books? For inspiration. Books exist for your benefit, not you for theirs. Your most precious possession is your own soul. Better to never see a book than to have it pull you out of your orbit, so that your life now revolves around that book instead of around your own soul. "

― Ralph Waldo Emerson , Everyday Emerson: The Wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson Paraphrased