He would not waste one hour of any day, or one watch of any night, on anything else.

And it was this that made him both the extraordinarily successful scout he was, and the extraordinarily sober and thoughtful and judicious man he was.

O yes, my brethren, the bottom of matters, when you take to it, will work the same change in you.

'Two things,' says one who had long looked at his own matters with Mr.
Prywell's eyes--'two things, O Lord, I recognise in myself: nature, which Thou hast made, and sin, which I have added.' My brethren, that recognition, that discovery in yourselves, when it comes to you, will sober you as it has sobered so many men before you: when it comes to you, that is, about yourselves.

That discovery made in yourselves will make you deep-thinking men.