I quote others only in order the better to express myself. - Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

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

"There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent."

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

"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know."

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