“a sincere promise, coupled with a helping hand, can bring hope where before there had been only despair.”
“Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits.”
“Love can hope where reason would despair.”
“She found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had been looking with impatient desire did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.”
“I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.”
“Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.”