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

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

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

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

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

All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope.

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