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Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete - Montaigne, Michel de · 56 words
READER, thou hast here an honest book; it doth at the outset forewarn thee that, in contriving the same, I have proposed to myself no other than a domestic and private end. I have had no consideration at all either to thy service or to my glory. My powers are not capable of any such design.
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