Montaigne Again

His favorite retreat was his tower with its library of classics, at least a thousand, bound in tooled leather. His favorites were Plutarch, Seneca, St. Augtustine, Virgil, Erasmus, and especially Lucretius. He wrote: "The familarity I have with them, and the aid they afford me in my old age, and my book merely framed of their spoils, binds me to maintain their honor."