Who said “Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth…”?

“There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.”

“The prompter the refusal, the less the disappointment.”

“Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy -- the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.”

“It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.”

“Disappointment, when it involves neither shame nor loss, is as good as success; for it supplies as many images to the mind, and as many topics to the tongue.”

“They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.”

“To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.”

“I am his Highness dog at Kew; pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?”

“Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.”

“And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.”

“To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.”