I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.