"To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly."

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

"Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage."

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

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