Life sobered Abelard, and Mr.Prywell too; life's crooks and life's crosses, life's duties and life's disappointments, especially Mr.
Prywell.

'The more narrowly a man looks into himself,' says A Kempis, 'the more he sorroweth.' Not sober-mindedness alone comes to him who looks narrowly into himself, but great sorrow of heart also.

And if you are not both sobered in your mind and full of an unquenchable sorrow in your heart, O yes! attend to it, for you are not yet begun to be what God would have you to be.

Dr.Newman, with all his mistakes and all his faults, was a master in two things: his own heart and the English language.

And in writing home to his mother a confidential letter from college on his birthday, he confides to her that he often 'shudders at himself.' 'No,' he answered to his mother's fears and advices about food and air and exercise: 'No, I am neither nervous, nor in ill-health, nor do I study too much.