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

Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you.

still loved but deprived of grace

Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.

A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

Another day gone and no jokes.

The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.