I perhaps sometimes hit upon something when I write, that seems quaint and sprightly to me, though it will appear dull and heavy to another .-- But let us leave these fine compliments; every one talks thus of himself according to his talent.

But when I come to speak, I am already so lost that I know not what I was about to say, and in such cases a stranger often finds it out before me.

If I should make erasure so often as this inconvenience befalls me, I should make clean work; occasion will, at some other time, lay it as visible to me as the light, and make me wonder what I should stick at..