“I am glad you came in to punctuate my discourse, which I fear has gone on for an hour without any stop at all.” A wry self-awareness of his own conversational flow · Table Talk, 29 June 1833 Conversation Humour Self
“I am never very forward in offering spiritual consolation to any one in distress or disease. I believe that such resources, to be of any service, must be self-evolved in the first instance.” Preferring inward spiritual growth over externally imposed consolation · Table Talk, 20 August 1833 Consolation Self Spirituality
