Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.
Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics.
Tales of adultery are much improved by period costumes.
Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.
Rule of science: only exclude purpose, and Nature will reveal her causes.
Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.