“In youth, what disappointments of our own making: in age, what disappointments from the nature of things.”

“The disappointment of manhood succeeds to the delusion of youth: let us hope that the heritage of old age is not despair.”

“There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.”

“If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?”

“What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.”

“Youth is not the age of pleasure; we then expect too much, and we are therefore exposed to daily disappointments and mortifications. When we are a little older, and have brought down our wishes to our experience, then we become calm and begin to enjoy ourselves.”

“If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.”

“All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.”

“Adieu to disappointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains?”

“What the inner voice says
Will not disappoint the hoping soul.”