Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Source: Marginalia, Re-Living the Old Life, (1844 --49; repr. in The Centenary Poe, ed. by Montagu Slater, 1949).
-- Edgar Allan Poe, (Jan 19 1809-1849), US poet, short-story writer; He is famous for his mysterious, macabre stories and poems, e.g., The Gold Bug, 1843 and The Raven, 1845.