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

“What are men to rocks and mountains?”

“It raises my spleen more than anything.”

“its healing powers, on a disappointed heart”

“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”

“…it was rather because she felt less happy than she had expected.  She laughed because she was disappointed…”

“A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation.”