“Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.”

“To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.”

“He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.”

“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.”

“Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.”