Michel de Montaigne

No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

The soul that has no established aim loses itself.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with a purpose.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

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 you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was 1.

We are all of us richer than we think we are.

The thing I fear most is fear.

All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

Riches like glory or health have no more beauty or pleasure than their possessor is pleased to lend them.

We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits their sickness and their health.

One should be ever booted and spurred and ready to depart.

Obstinacy and heat in sticking to one's opinions is the surest proof of stupidity. Is there anything so cocksure so immovable so disdainful so contemplative so solemn and serious as an ass?

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

Valor is stability not of legs and arms but of courage and the soul.

The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm 'O God you will save me if you wish but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight.'