Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing. - Michel de Montaigne

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page-boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk— they are all part of the curriculum.

'T is so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. The strange lustre that surrounds him conceals and shrouds him from us; our sight is there broken and dissipated, being stopped and filled by the prevailing light.

"Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgement on him."

-from "By diverse means we arrive at the same end"