The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.
Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
Life is the art of being well deceived.