Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us

Labour may be a burden and a chastisement, but it is also an honour and a glory. Without it, nothing can be accomplished.

An intense anticipation itself transforms possibility into reality; our desires being often but precursors of the things which we are capable of performing.

Hope...is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.