Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
- Michel de Montaigne
In many ways I was disappointed but I was let down my own expectations not the quality of the book. I picked up the Penguin version with a selection of essays as opposed to the whole collection. There were many that were enjoyable but I found myself skipping through some of the prose and not really taking in the full essay.