Montaigne[799:1] is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.
Thoughts. Chap. iv. 6.
Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is inevitable that we never become so.[799:2]
Thoughts. Chap. v. 2.
If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.
Thoughts. Chap. viii. 29.
The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.
Thoughts. Chap. ix. 30.
Rivers are highways that move on, and bear us whither we wish to go.
Thoughts. Chap. ix. 38.