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 2. A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

 3. Be of good hope in the face of death. Believe in this one truth for certain, that no evil can befall a good man either in life or death, and that his fate is not a matter of indifference to the gods.

 4. Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.

 5. Better trust all and be deceived, And weep that trust, and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart that, if believed, Had blessed one's life with true believing.

 6. Confidence is nowhere safe.

 7. Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks on great and honourable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

 8. Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.

 9. Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

10. Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

11. Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But Microscopes are prudent In an emergency.

12. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

13. Faith removes greed, fear and pride; it teaches courtesy and wins respect; it frees one from the bondage of circumstances; it gives one courage to meet hardship; it gives one power to overcome temptation; faith enables one to keep one's deeds bright and pure; and it enriches the mind with wisdom.

14. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

15. Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

16. He that lives in hope dances without music.

17. He that lives on hopes will die fasting.

18. He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

19. Hope and fear are inseparable.

20. Hope and patience are two sovereign remedies for all, the surest reposals, the softest cushions to lean on in adversity.

21. Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

22. Hope is a flatterer, but the most upright of all parasites; for she frequents the poor man's hut, as well as the palace of his superior.

23. Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

24. Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend. Hope is not the man for your banker, though he may do for a travelling companion.

25. Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker, but his drafts are seldom honoured since there is often a heavy balance against him, because he draws largely on a small capital and is not yet in possession.

26. Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

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

28. Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

29. Hope is the best part of our riches. What sufficeth it that we have great wealth in our pockets, if we have not the hope of heaven in our souls?

30. Hope is the only good which is common to all men; those who have nothing more possess hope still.

31. Hope is the pillar that holds up the world.

32. Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

33. Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blest.

34. Hope! fortune's cheating lottery Where for one prize a thousand blanks there are.

35. Hope! of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure.

36. Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.

37. Hopes are but the dreams of those who are awake.

38. Hopes, what are they? - Beads of morning Strung on slender blades of grass; Or a spider's web adorning In a straight and treacherous pass.

39. How many things served us yesterday for articles of faith, which to-day are fables to us!

40. However deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life.

41. I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

42. I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.

43. I suppose it can be truthfully said that hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

44. If a man has faith and has virtue, then he has true glory and treasure. Wherever that man may go, there he will be held in honour.

45. In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

46. In the Affairs of the World Men are saved, not by Faith but by the Want of it.

47. It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.

48. It is best to hope only for things possible and probable; he that hopes too much shall deceive himself at last, especially if his industry does not go along with his hopes; for hope without action is a barren undoer.

49. It is hope which maintains most of mankind.

50. Man is made by his belief.uAs he believes, so he is.

51. Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

52. Much knowledge of divine things is lost to us through want of faith.

53. No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or disbelieve.

54. Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.

55. Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

56. On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property.

57. One does not have to believe everything one hears.

58. Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure.

59. Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture.

60. The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness; but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.

61. The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

62. The miserable hath no other medicine but only hope.

63. The only faith that wears well and holds its colour in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction.

64. The roots of faith rest in Understanding, the synthetic principle of consciousness.

65. The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone.

66. Things which you don't hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.

67. True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings: Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings.

68. Under the storm and the cloud today, and today the hard peril and pain - tomorrow the stone shall be rolled away, for the sunshine shall follow the rain.

69. Vows begin when hope dies.

70. We are inclined to believe those we do not know, because they have never deceived us.

71. We do not stray out of all worlds into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.

72. Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage.

73. When there is no hope, there can be no endeavour.

74. Where belief is painful, we are slow to believe.

75. Whose faith has centre everywhere, Nor cares to fix itself to form.

76. You believe that easily which you hope for earnestly.

77. You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.