Auspicious Hope! In thy sweet garden grow wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe. Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind, But leave --oh leave the light of Hope behind!
--Thomas Campbell

Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
--Joseph Addison

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.
--Albert Camus