Petrarch quotes

" Love is the crowning grace of humanity. " # Love

" Books have led some to learning and others to madness, when they swallow more than they can digest. " # Books - Reading # Leaders and Leadership # Madness

" It is better to will the good than to know the truth. " # Truth

" There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound, us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away- sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come. I believe I speak but the strict truth when I claim that as there is none among earthly delights more noble than literature, so there is none so lasting, none gentler, or more faithful; there is none which accompanies its possessor through the vicissitudes of life at so small a cost of effort or anxiety. " # Writers and Writing # Literature # Faith

" Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief. " # Grief

" A good death does honor to a whole life. " # Death and Dying # Honor # Life and Living

" A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires. " # Desire # Riches # Wealth

" Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health? " # Sports # Love # Health

" How fortune brings to earth the over-sure! " # Fortune

" Often have I wondered with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure. " # Curiosity # Change # Travel and Tourism