You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value.

If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable

We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.

Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog-a cat's a cat.

With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don’t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that — I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James — But we've not got so far as names.

The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation.

There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.