The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to... - Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

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

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

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

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

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