Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.

Smiles frames hope not as passive wishing but as an active force that travels with “power” (agency, will, capacity to act). By calling hope the “mother of success,” he suggests that achievement is generated first in the mind as expectation and resolve, which then sustains effort through difficulty. The closing claim—“who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles”—uses religiously charged language to emphasize the seemingly extraordinary outcomes that can arise from perseverance and self-belief. In Smiles’s moralizing, self-help tradition, hope becomes a practical virtue: it energizes work, enlarges what one attempts, and helps turn improbable results into lived reality.