If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more th... - 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."

"It is a disaster that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and always sends you away dissatisfied and fearful, whereas stubbornness and foolhardiness fill their hosts with joy and assurance."

"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."