Now, you may be getting a very good living in a profession, and yet doing no good at all in the world, but quite the contrary, at the same time.

Keep the latter before you as your one object, and you will be right, whether you make a living or not; but if you dwell on the other, you'll very likely drop into mere money-making, and let the world take care of itself for good or evil.

Don't be in a hurry about finding your work in the world for yourself--you are not old enough to judge for yourself yet; but just look about you in the place you find yourself in, and try to make things a little better and honester there.

You'll find plenty to keep your hand in at Oxford, or wherever else you go.

And don't be led away to think this part of the world important and that unimportant.