Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship. Johann Kaspar Lavater Read Quote
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad. Johann Kaspar Lavater Read Quote
Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet. Johann Kaspar Lavater Read Quote
You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all. Johann Kaspar Lavater Read Quote
The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers. Johann Kaspar Lavater Read Quote
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already. Johann Kaspar Lavater Read Quote
Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything. Johann Kaspar Lavater Read Quote
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. Johann Kaspar Lavater Read Quote
He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love. Johann Kaspar Lavater Read Quote
