D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!" -D'Artagnan

...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?

The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.

I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?’ I replied, ‘Listen, I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Misfortune does not help us to believe.

God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.