Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have kn... - Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

"Why do people respect the package rather than the man?"

"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens."

"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself."

"[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out."

"We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there."