In the perception of a tree we can distinguish the act of experiencing, or perceiving, from the thing experienced, or perceived.

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

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

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.

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

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