“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”

“Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday. ”

“Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.”

“As you hope to prove your own great value to the state, and having proved it, to attain at once to absolute power, so do I indulge a hope that I shall be the supreme power over you, if I am able to prove my own great value to you.”

“Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.”

“If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.”

“Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it?”

“The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.”

“America is a great force for freedom and prosperity. Yet our greatness is not measured in power or luxuries, but by who we are and how we treat one another. So we strive to be a compassionate, decent, hopeful society.”

“Medicine was so advanced in Salerno that there was no place for illness.”
Tum medicinali tantum florebat in arte, posset ut hic nullus languor hobere locum