'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear.

Opportunity, to statesmen, is as the just degree of heat to chemists; it perfects all the work.

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear.

A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.

But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own, So in our very judgments.

Out upon it, I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.

Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.