Robert Recorde Quote

The time seemeth longe (bee it never so shorte indeed) to hym that desirously looketh for any thing: for as the obtaining of it bringeth great pleasure, namelye the thinge itselfe being profitable, so the wante thereof causeth displeasure and cotinuall grief tyll the desire be eyther fully satisfied, other partly (at the least) accomplished.

The Castle of Knowledge, The First Treatise (p. 1), Imprinted by R. Wolfe. 1556