It’s always something, to know you’ve done the most you could. But, don’t leave off hoping, or it’s of no use doing anything. Hope, hope to the last!

Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

While there's life, there's hope.

God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.

Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.