If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.
Rudyard KiplingHear and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was: O my Best Beloved, when the tame animals were wild.
Rudyard Kipling