If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.
Michel de MontaigneIt should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.
Michel de MontaigneNobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
Michel de MontaigneI leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.
Michel de Montaigne