Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a wa… — Pliny the Elder

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. — Abraham Lincoln
My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair. — Thomas Jefferson
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is. — Joseph Addison
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. — Pliny the Elder
Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen. — Pliny the Elder
It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. — Pliny the Elder