Who said “Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.”?

“What we anticipate seldom occurs, what we least expected generally happens.”

“Now it is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it...”

“Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.”

“We tend to get what we expect.”

“If something can go wrong it will.”

“Those who trust us educate us.”

“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”

“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.”

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”

“Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.”