"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."

~Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)

Hope is the only good god remaining among mankind; the others have left and gone to Olympus. Trust, a mighty god has gone, Restraint has gone from men, and the Graces, my friend, have abandoned the earth.
~Theognis of Megara (c. 550 BC)