Eye, Nov. 17. 1851.
"_Posie of other Men's Flowers_" (Vol. iv., p. 58.).--A literary friend
of mine has found the passage in _Montaigne_, book iii., chapter 12.,
about three-fourths of the way through it:
"We invest ourselves with the faculties of others, and let our own
lie idle: as some one may say to me that I have here only made a
nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but
the thread that ties them together."