Disobedient parents are a great trouble to their children.
The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.
Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.
My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.
Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.
Death is always there, just beneath the surface.