Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.