An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.

Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.

The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.

The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.

Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.