We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

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

All necessary truth is its own evidence.

I shun father and mother and wife and brother, when my genius calls me.

Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.