What I mean by living to one's self is living in the world, as in it, not of it.
Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse.
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.
Life is the art of being well deceived.