Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes

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

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

About Fuseli: "...the most original genius I know. Nothing but energy, profusion and calm! The wildn...

Act well at the moment and you have performed a good action to all eternity.

Make this poor self grow less and less, Be Thou my life and aim ; Oh, make me daily, through Thy gra...

He who when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth tells it boldly and has done is both bolder...

How few our real wants and how vast our imaginary ones!

The public seldom forgive twice.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God to respect Time.

Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.

The worst of faces still is human.

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