I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
PetrarchI rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.
PetrarchLove is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
Petrarch