Nothing so difficult as a beginning In poesy, unless perhaps the end.
My native land, good night!
The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee.
To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.
Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.