Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. - Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

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

"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."

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

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