In this particular the poor are happy; among them, when a lad comes to his strength, he must take the work that offers, and can take it with an easy conscience.

But in the richer classes the question is complicated by the number of opportunities and a variety of considerations.

Here, then, this principle of ours comes in helpfully.

The young man has to seek, not a road to wealth, but an opportunity of service; not money, but honest work.

If he has some strong propensity, some calling of nature, some over-weening interest in any special field of industry, inquiry, or art, he will do right to obey the impulse; and that for two reasons: the first external, because there he will render the best services; the second personal, because a demand of his own nature is to him without appeal whenever it can be satisfied with the consent of his other faculties and appetites.