All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.
Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.