But I often regret, and even acutely, my want of a Senior Wrangler's knowledge of physics and mathematics; and I regret still more some habits of mind which a Senior Wrangler is pretty certain to possess." Like all men who know what the world is, he regarded the triumph of a college career as of less value than its disappointments.

Those are most to be envied who soonest learn to expect nothing for which they have not worked hard, and who never acquire the habit, (a habit which an unbroken course of University successes too surely breeds,) of pitying themselves overmuch if ever in after life they happen to work in vain.
Cambridge: Wednesday.

(Post-mark, 1818) My dear Mother,--King, I am absolutely certain, would take no more pupils on any account.

And, even if he would, he has numerous applicants with prior claims.

He has already six, who occupy him six hours in the day, and is likewise lecturer to the college.