Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? and why must Disappointment all I endeavour end?

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'Thou art indeed just, Lord'.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.

-Lamb, Charles
  In the London Magazine, May^  Jul. Collected in Essays of Elia,'Detached Thoughts of Books and Reading'.

All the same, you know parentsöespecially step- parentsöare sometimes a disappointment to their children.Theydon'tfulfil thepromise oftheirearly years.

-Powell, Anthony Dymoke
  A Buyer's Market, ch.2.