• Det er meneskeligt at fejle, men guddommeligt at tilgive.
• Er ikke fravær døden for de, som elsker?
• Karakterstyrke er en øvelse, ikke hvile.
• KorpsÃ¥nd, i bedste fald manges galskab til fordelt for fÃ¥.
• Mennesker ville være engle, engle ville være gud.
• Nogle har først passeret for Ã¥ndfulde; derpÃ¥ for digtere; er rask blevet kritikere dernæst; og har vist sig at være rene tÃ¥ber tilsidst.
• TÃ¥ber farer ind, hvor engle frygter at træde.
• Verdens største lup er en mands øje, nÃ¥r han betragter sig selv.

Engelske citater:

• A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, And drinking largely sobers us again.
• A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
• A wit 's a feather, and a chief a rod; An honest man 's the noblest work of God.
• Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
• All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
• All gardening is landscape painting.
• An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.
• An honest man's the noblest work of God.
• And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
• And love the offender, yet detest the offence.
• And make each day a critic on the last.
• And mistress of herself, though china fall.
• Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.
• At every word a reputation dies.
• At ev'ry trifle scorn to take offense.
• At være vred er at hævne andres fejl pÃ¥ dig selv.
• Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old: It is the rust we value, not the gold.
• Be silent always when you doubt your sense.
• Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
• Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
• Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
• Curse on all laws but those which love has made!
• Die of a rose in aromatic pain.
• Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
• False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss.
• Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
• Fools admire, but men of sense approve.
• Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
• For he lives twice who can at once employ The present well, and ev'n the past enjoy.
• Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.
• He best can paint them who shall feel them most.
• Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
• Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
• Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.
• How do we know that we have a right to kill creatures that we are so little above, as dogs, for our curiosity or even for some use to us?
• How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
• How vast a memory has Love!
• If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
• Is not absence death to those who love?
• It is with our judgment as our watches, none go just alike, yet each believes his own.
• Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
• Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is man.
• Let spades be trumps! she said, and trumps they were.
• Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, More a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
• Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
• Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake.
• Most authors steal their works, or buy.
• Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in Night, God said, Let Newton be! And all was Light.
• Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
• On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale.
• One science only will one genius fit: So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
• Order is Heaven's first law.
• Party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
• Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet. To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet.
• Say, is not absence death to those who love?
• So perish all who do the like again.
• Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
• Some praise at morning what they blame at night, But always think the last opinion right.
• The same ambition can destroy or save, and makes a patriot as it makes a knave.
• The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes, O goddess sing! Another version: Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumbered, heavenly goddess, sing! , Translation of the Iliad, 1715
• There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
• They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
• Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.
• 'Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
• 'Tis education forms the common mind: Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
• To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.
• To err is human, to forgive divine. , An Essay on Criticism
• Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
• Truth needs not flowers of speech.
• Whatever is, is right.
• When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
• When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same at last.
• Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
• Who builds a church to God and not to fame, Will never mark the marble with his name.
• Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,— His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
• Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason: man is not a fly.
• Woman's at best a contradiction still.
• Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
• Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see Men not afraid of God, afraid of me.
• You eat, in dreams, the custard of the day.
• You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.