Great Throughts Treasury

"Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed." - Albert Einstein

"Nobody has any right to find life uninteresting or unrewarded who sees within the sphere of his own activity a wrong he can help to remedy, or within himself an evil he can hope to overcome." - Charles W. Eliot

"We ought neither to fasten our ship to one small anchor nor our life to a single hope." -

"Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is, instead, an inner spiritual strength which enables them to face those storms with hope and serenity. Religious faith has the miraculous power to lift ordinary human beings to greatness in seasons of stress." - Sam Ervin, fully Samuel James "Sam" Ervin, Jr.

"His worth shines forth the brightest who in hope always confides; the abject soul despairs." - Euripedes NULL

"If money is your only hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability." - Henry Ford

"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." - E. M. Forster, fully Edward Morgan Forster

"Obstinacy in opinions holds the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation." - Joseph Glanvill

"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow." -

"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow." - Robert H. Goddard, fully Robert Hutchings Goddard

"Nothing whatever can be said in support of the assumption that nature will usually follow the simpler theory... The simplest theory is to be chosen not because it is most likely to be true but because it is scientifically the most rewarding among equally likely alternatives. We aim at simplicity and hope for truth." - Nelson Goodman, fully Henry Nelson Goodman

"Cling to the flying hours; and yet let one pure hope, one great desire, like song on dying lips be set - that ere we fall in scattered fire our hearts may life the world's heart higher." - Edmund Gosse, fully Sir Edmund William Gosse

"Obstinacy in opinions hold the dogmatist in the chains of error, without hope of emancipation." - John Cartaret Carteret, 1st Earl Granville

"Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. Hope is not the man for your banker, though he may do for a traveling companion." - Thomas Haliburton, fully Thomas Chandler Haliburton, pseudonym "Sam Slick"

"I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. It think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it." - Oscar Hammerstein II, fully Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hamerstein II

"A physician restricts the diet of only those patients whom he expects to recover. So God prescribed dietary laws for those who have hope of a future life. Others may eat anything." - Tanhum ben Hanilai

"Curiosity is little more than another name for hope." - Julius Charles Hare (1795-1855) and his brother Augustus William Hare

"Every affection of the mind that is attended with either pain or pleasure, hope or fear, is the cause of an agitation whose influence extends to the heart, and there induces change from the natural constitution, in the temperature, the pulse and the rest, which impairing all nutrition in its source and abating the powers at large, it is no wonder that various forms of incurable disease in the extremities and in the trunk are the consequence, inasmuch as in such circumstances the whole body labors under the effects of vitiated nutrition and want of native heat." - William Harvey

"The Kaddish is not a prayer for the dead, but a mandate for the living... It bids man rise above his sorrow... and fixes his view upon the welfare of mankind. It lifts his hope and vision to a day... when mankind shall at last inhabit the earth as children of the one God and Father, and justice reign supreme in peace." - R. Hertz, fully Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz

"The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope." - George Stillman Hillard

"The end of worship amongst men is power. For where a man seeth another worshipped, he supposeth him powerful, and is the readier to obey him; which makes his power greater. But God has no ends: the worship we do him proceeds from our duty and is directed according to our capacity by those rules of honor that reason dictateth to be done by the weak to the more potent men, in hope of benefit, for fear of damage, or in thankfulness for good already received from them." - Thomas Hobbes

"We live in the future. Even the happiness of the present is made up mostly of that delightful discontent which the hope of better things inspires." -

"In the whole range of human vision nothing is more attractive than to see a young man full of promise and of hope, bending all his energies in the direction of truth and duty and God, his soul pervaded with the loftiest enthusiasm, and his life consecrated to the noblest ends. To be such a young man is to rival the noblest and best of men in heroic valor." -

"Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

"The enduring value of religion is in its challenge to aspiration and hope in the mind of man." - Ernest Martin Hopkins

"Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens heaven to us in the midst of every tempest." - Arsène Houssaye

"There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope." - E. W. Howe, fully Edgar Watson Howe

"It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit." - William Dean Howells

"The word which God has written on the brow of every man is Hope." - Victor Hugo

"A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty." - David Hume

"To be happy, the temperament must be cheerful and gay, not gloomy and melancholy. A propensity to hope and joy, is real riches; one to fear and sorrow is real poverty." - David Hume

"I hope always, I desire much, I expect little." - Ze'ev Jabotinsky, born Vladimir Jabotinsky

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

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

"It is necessary to hope, though hope should be always deluded; for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction." -

"Objects imperfectly discerned take forms from the hope or fear of the beholder." -

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

"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." -

"To marry a second time represents the triumph of hope over experience." -

"Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage." -

"A man can hope for satisfaction and fulfillment only in what he does not yet possess; he cannot find pleasured in something of which he already has too much." - Carl Jung, fully Carl Gustav Jung

"Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope, and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable." - John F. Kennedy, fully John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy

"Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope." - John F. Kennedy, fully John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy

"To be a revolutionary is to love your life enough to change it, to choose struggle instead of exile, to risk everything with only the glimmering hope of a world to win...Woman loves with her whole soul. To woman love is life, to man it is the joy of life." - Andrew David Kopkind

"I am a man of peace, God knows how I love peace; but I hope I shall never be such a coward as to mistake oppression for peace." - Louis Kossuth, also Lajos Kossuth, fully Lajos Kossuth de Udvard et Kossuthfalva

"Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward." -

"Hope is love's happiness, but not its life." - Letitia Elizabeth Landon

"The march of Providence is so slow and our desires to impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our mean of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing ways, and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope." - Robert Full

"Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?" - Abraham Lincoln

"War as a useful extension of diplomacy is obsolete. No aggressor can hope to come out a winner." - Murray D. Lincoln, fully Murray Danforth Lincoln