Christian beat the ground with his stick.
'Your state of mind, then,' he said at length, 'is more like my own than I imagined.

I, too, have wavered for a long time between literature and science, and now at last I have quite decided--quite--that scientific study is the only safe line for me.

The fact is, a man must concentrate himself.

Not only for the sake of practical success, but--well, for his own sake.' He spoke lazily, dreamily, propped upon his elbow, seeming to watch the sheep which panted at a few yards from him.
'I have no right,' he pursued, with a shadow of kindly anxiety on his features, 'to offer you advice, but--well, if you will let me insist on what I have learned from my own experience.

There's nothing like having a special line of work and sticking to it vigorously.