Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

Samuel Johnson Quotes