If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he, and I was I.
Michel de MontaigneEvery period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?
Michel de MontaigneNo man divulges his revenue, or at least which way it comes in: but every one publishes his acquisitions.
Michel de MontaigneBusiness in a certain sort of men is a mark of understanding, and they are honored for it. Their souls seek repose in agitation, as children do by being rocked in a cradle. They may pronounce themselves as serviceable to their friends as troublesome to themselves. No one distributes his money to others, but every one therein distributes his time and his life. There is nothing of which we are so prodigal as of those two things, of which to be thrifty would be both commendable and useful.
Michel de Montaigne