I am one of those who hold that poetry is never so blithe as in a wanton and irregular subject.
Michel de MontaigneHow often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
Michel de MontaigneThe souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.
Michel de MontaigneMy errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.
Michel de Montaigne