“I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.”

I.26 “Of the education of children” (p.131)

“Truth and reason are common to everyone, and no more belong to the man who first spoke them than to the man who says them later. … The bees plunder the flowers here and there, but afterward they make of them honey, which is all theirs; it is no longer thyme or marjoram.”

I.26 “Of the education of children” (p.135)

[Justifying quoting others (without attribution, in Montaigne’s case)]