Expectation

"But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"

"If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions."

"To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect."

"All thoughts start from emotions."

"We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us."

"It tires me to talk to rich men. You expect a man of millions, the head of a great industry, to be a man worthhearing; but as a rule they don't know anything outside their own business."

"Love and hope can conquer hate."

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

"Have no expectations is an expectation."

"Do not expect others to solve the problem for you."

"Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles."

"To those who are given much, much is expected."