All industry must be excited by hope.

Hope is always liberal, and they that trust her promises make little scruple of revelling today on the profits of the morrow.

We naturally indulge those ideas that please us. Hope will predominate in every mind, till it has been suppressed by frequent disappointments.

Hope is… very fallacious, and promises what it seldom gives; but its promises are more valuable than the gifts of fortune, and it seldom frustrates us without assuring us of recompensing the delay of greater bounty.

In all pleasure hope is a considerable part.

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

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize him and thus force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

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