“Never despair…”

“Never despair. Never surrender.”

“He who has never hoped can never despair”

“The poet
never must lose despair.”

“I never lost hope, and never did I despair of coming back alive.”

“T is just like a summer bird-cage in a garden,—the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.”

“You are never stronger… than when you land on the other side of despair.”

“Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.”

“And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.”

“Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.”