Seth

“From books all I seek is to give myself pleasure by an honourable pastime: or if I do study, I seek only that branch of learning which deals with knowing myself and which teaches me how to live and die well...”
― Michel de Montaigne, On Solitude

“Like many Peace Corps volunteers all over the world, I found that the parent visit was a kind of revelation: suddenly I saw how much I had learned and how much I had forgotten.”
― Peter Hessler, River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze

“When I am playing with my cat, who knows whether she have more sport in dallying with me than I have in gaming with her?”
― Michel de Montaigne, Shakespeare's Montaigne: The Florio Translation of the Essays, A Selection

“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”
― William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night