[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair... - Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

"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."

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

"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."

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

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