I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.
Michel de MontaigneA father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.
Michel de MontaigneWe easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.
Michel de MontaigneBeauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.
Michel de MontaigneChildren's games are hardly games. Children are never more serious than when they play.
Michel de MontaigneWhenever a new finding is reported to the world people say - It is probably not true. Later on, when the reliability of a new finding has been fully confirmed, people say - OK, it may be true but it has no real significance. At last, when even the significance of the finding is obvious to everybody, people say - Well, it might have some significance, but the idea is not new.
Michel de Montaigne