I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.

There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.

I must have my share in the conversation.

A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.