"God, ordains all for the best, however strange it may appear to our eyes."
(Mersman, 1938, 105-106))

"No physician, no any other man, no accident, no chance, can either give life or take it, but God alone."
(Mersman, 106)

"Let us trust God and comfort ourselves with the thought that all is well if it be God's will, since he best knows what is requisite and necessary to our temporal and to our eternal happiness."
(Mersman,106)

"Let us submit steadfastly to the Divine will, fully convinced it will be for our good, for he does all things well."
(Mersman, 108)

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Mersmann, H. Letters Of Mozart. London: J. M. Dent and Sons, 1938.