Excerpt from The Essays of Montaigne
If the question were asked what translated books have exercised most influence on the English mind (the authorised version of the Bible and other religious books being ruled out of the competition), I do not think that any third could enter, with any chance of success, for the first prize against North's Plutarch and Florio's Montaigne. These two books represented influences parallel, and even to a certain extent identical; for we know from Montaigne himself how great was the action upon him of Plutarch in substance and of Amyot's Plutarch (which North's directly represents) in style. They were both favourite reading with the English people for something like a century in their original forms, and remained popular in revised and slightly altered versions for much longer. Both - the one indisputably, the other to an extent not much affected by the dispute whether a particular copy of Florio was or was not Shakespeare's - influenced the author who, more than any other, has himself influenced Englishmen.
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