Read only on the Best

President Ezra Taft Benson of the Quorum of the Twelve (and later 13th President of the Church) taught:

"Today with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. “Of making many books there is no end” (Ecclesiastes 12:12).  Feed only on the best. As John Wesley's mother counseled him: 'Avoid whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, ... increases the authority of the body over the mind.'"

"In His Steps," in 1979 Devotional Speeches of the Year [1980]m 61)