“I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all
“Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invaribly they are both disappointed
“I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven
“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.
“The essential and unbounded mercy of my Creator is the foundation of my hope, and a broader and surer the universe cannot give me
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another
“I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses
“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
“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