The curious thing is that the more the mind takes in, the more it has space for, and that all one's ideas are like the Irish people at home who live in the different corners of a room, and take boarders." "I fancy it is our peculiar good luck that we don't see the limits of our minds," said Rowland.

"We are young, compared with what we may one day be.

That belongs to youth; it is perhaps the best part of it.

They say that old people do find themselves at last face to face with a solid blank wall, and stand thumping against it in vain.

It resounds, it seems to have something beyond it, but it won't move! That 's only a reason for living with open doors as long as we can!" "Open doors ?" murmured Roderick.