But you have never known me, and do not know me.

God pardon you; for it is He who granted me the grace to bear what I do bear and have borne, in order that you might be helped.

Well, you will know me when you have lost me." Michelangelo's angry moods rapidly cooled down.

At the bottom of his heart lay a deep and abiding love for his family.

There is something caressing in the tone with which he replies to grumbling letters from his father.