Montaigne Quotes - page 2

This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Many good writers, from Montaigne to Mencken, have been impolitic, colicky, or sassy. View quote
Mark Riebling
Neither Montaigne in writing his essays, nor DesCartes in building new worlds, nor Burnet in framing an antedeluvian earth, no nor Newton in discovering and establishing the true laws of nature on experiment and a sublimer geometry, felt more intellectual joys; than he feels who is a real patriot, who bends all the force of his understanding, and directs all his thoughts and actions, to the good of his country. View quote
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke