True hope is based on energy of character.
A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope, because it knows the mutability of human affairs, and how slight a circumstance may change the whole course of events. And if at last all should be lost, it has saved itself - its own integrity and worth. I give you strength, truly I help you, truly I hold you firm with my saving right hand. A Man came into a forest and asked the Trees to provide him a handle for his ax. The Trees consented to his request and gave him a young ash-tree.