Famous quotes containing the words essays and/or written:
“What are these essays but grotesque and monstrous bodies, pieced together of different members, without any definite shape, without any order, coherence, or proportion, except they be accidental?”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
“I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb. Ineffable socialities are in me. I would sit down and dine with you and all the gods in old Romes Pantheon. It is a strange feelingno hopefulness is in it, no despair. Contentthat is it; and irresponsibility; but without licentious inclination.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
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