Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge withou... - 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."

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

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

"Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness."

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