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How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!
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I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
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It is certainly curious that among all the millions of books that have been written on every conceivable subject, so few writers have really tried to describe the tissue of their thoughts and the actual taste of consciousness. And yet this is, after all, our most immediate and direct experience, the only experience of whose reality we are absolutely certain.
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It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
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'Montaigne,' p. 2
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All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.