“It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.”

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

“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”

“Every man is, or hopes to be, an idler”

“What we hope ever to do with ease, we must first learn to do with diligence.”

“To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.”

“A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.”