Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.
“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”
“How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened!”
“Pleasure disappoints; possibility does not.”
“The most beautiful time is the first period of falling in love, when, from every encounter, every glance, one fetches home something new to rejoice over.”
“The joy of anticipation is the greatest.”