Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes & Quotations

Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

» Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

» He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.

» He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

» Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

» The public seldom forgive twice.

» I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

» You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

» Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

» To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

» There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.

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