It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.

My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.

A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.

What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

I am completely half afraid to think.

Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.