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The greater or finer or nobler a person is, the less will he need to tell his private troubles to others. The more such a refined person tends to keep his innermost thoughts to himself, the more others will seek him for advice on their problems, and he will accept their confidences. A father confessor is the supreme example of this. A mother, too, hears the troubles of all her children, but does not tell them hers. She reserves them for her own mother or for her husband. A cultivated conversationalist will, in the colloquial phrase, tend to let many cry on his shoulders, but cry on few himself, and seldom. |
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