تبيّن لي، وأنا أتأمّل حياتي الماضية، أنّ عناية محبّة كانت تحرسني، وأنّ كلّ شيء كان يُدبَّر لي بقوةٍ عليا.

“It was clear to me, as I glanced back over my earlier life, that a loving Providence watched over me, that all was directed for me by a higher power.”Hans Christian Andersen — The Story of My Life (1871)