In life, as in chess, one's own pawns block one's way. A man's very
wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win,
more often checkmate him.--_Charles Buxton._
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness and
intention of mind imaginable, he finds not half the pleasure in the
actual possession of them as he proposed to himself in the
expectation.--_South._