This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues.

My good hoe as it bites the ground revenges my wrongs, and I have less lust to bite my enemies. In the smoothing the rough hillocks, I smooth my temper.

We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience.

For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.

Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

Necessity does everything well.

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.