THE POWER OF HOPE
Hope is the real riches, as fear is the real poverty.—Hume.
Hope’s a magical compound
To increase our strength, we’ve found,
It can charm our bars and barriers all away.
With its impulse, which we borrow,
We can always do to-morrow
Lots and lots of things we never do to-day.
Small pleasures, depend upon it, lie about us as thick as daisies.—Jerrold.
Hope is the architect but brawn is the builder. An architect’s most elaborate design for a mansion, on paper, cannot protect one from the elements as well as can the crudest little cabin actually built by hands. Those who spend much time in dreaming wonderful plans and waiting for a ready-made success to come and hunt them up may be interested in learning about