“If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
“Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
“If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius
“A birthday: and now a day that rose with much of hope, with meaning rife. A thoughtful day from dawn to close: the middle day of human life
“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all
“Only one thing is necessary in your anguish: bear everything with resignation to the Divine Will; for this will help you to attain your eternal salvation. Hope with a lively faith and you will receive everything from Almighty God.
“The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed; the thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, whose charms were broken if revealed
“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free
“For life, with all its yields of joy and woe, and hope and fear, believe the aged friend, is just a chance o' the prize of learning love
“The essential and unbounded mercy of my Creator is the foundation of my hope, and a broader and surer the universe cannot give me
“To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.