Perhaps the appetite weakens as one grows in years; perhaps the sphere of one's keener interests contracts; I hope it may be so.

At times I cannot work--I mean, I could not--for a sense of the vastness of the field before me.
I should like you to see my rooms at Balliol.

Shelves have long since refused to take another volume; floor, tables, chairs, every spot is heaped.

And there they lie; hosts I have scarcely looked into, many I shall never have time to take up to the end of my days.' 'You have the satisfaction of being able to give your whole time to study.' 'There is precisely the source of dissatisfaction My whole time, and that wholly insufficient.

I have a friend, a man I envy intensely; he has taken up the subject of Celtic literature; gives himself to it with single-heartedness, cares for nothing that does not connect itself therewith; will pursue it throughout his life; will know more of it than any man living.