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

"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."

"Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement."

"Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own."

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

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