Puritan Reading Advice

In seeking truth, remember it is not hasty reading, but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths that make them sweet and profitable to the soul.  It is not the bee's brief touching of the flower, but her abiding upon the flower that draws out the sweet.  It is not he that reads the most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the sweetest, wisest, and strongest Christian.

Thomas Brooks, Works, I:8-9, from Voices From the Past, Banner of Truth, page 217.