The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.

Finding love is a fixation now, and that's because although romantic love can sometimes cause a lot of suffering, it can also give people peaks of happiness that come very close to our ideal of 'the happy state.'

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.