We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Joseph Addison Quotes

We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to...

We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to...

We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to...

We are apt to rely upon future prospects, and become really expensive while we are only rich in possibility. We live up to our expectations, not to...