A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.
Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one.
Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
OUT-OF-DOORS, n. That part of one's environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.
A person of greater enterprise than discretion, who in embracing an opportunity has formed an unfortunate attachment.