Michel de Montaigne

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.

Make your educational laws strict and your criminal ones can be gentle; but if you leave youth its liberty you will have to dig dungeons for ages.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.