It’s impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.
It’s hard to be disappointed when what you expected turns out to be true.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
I ‘gin to be aweary of the sun, and wish th’ estate o’ th’ world were now undone.
Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.
