Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

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

Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.

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.

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 sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.

But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation.