Hope and Charity

Famous quotes containing the words hope and/or charity:

“Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“How much methinks, I could despise this man,
But that I am bound in charity against it.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)