“Go straight on, however, and one’s sure to come out into a new country, on the other side the hills, sunny and bright.”

Using a railway journey as an image of perseverance through difficult periods · Letter from Cambridge, Massachusetts, 23 February 1853

• Hope
• Time

“Still we may be well assured that only time can work out any sort of answer to them for us.”

Counselling patience when confronting profound moral and spiritual questions · Letter, March 1852

• Hope
• Time
• Truth