Most men have a sunny spot to which they look back in their existence, as most have an impossible future, to attain which all their energies are exerted, and their resources employed. The difference between these visionary scenes is this, that they think a good deal of the latter, but talk a good deal of the former.

Market Harborough; or, How mr. Sawyer went to the shires [by G.J. Whyte-Melville]. (ed. 1861)