"Oft expectation fails, and most oft there..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”

“We must not stintOur necessary actions in the fearTo cope malicious censurers, which ever,As rav'nous fishes, do a vessel followThat is new-trimmed, but benefit no furtherThan vainly longing.”

“So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.”

“But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.”

“Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.”

“People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.”

“What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.”

“You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked up by some bunglers and dragged into the street, to more fools like themselves, and one suddenly meets it in the flea market, unrecognizable, dirty, askew, absurdly presented, without proportion, without harmony, a toy for stupid children.”

“I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.”