277 Quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater

May God preserve those he loves from profitless reading.

About Fuseli: "...the most original genius I know. Nothing but energy, profusion and calm! The wildness of the warrior—and the feeling of supreme sublimity! … His spirits are storm wind, his ministers flames of fire! He goes upon the wings of the wind. His laughter is the mockery of hell and his love—a deadly lightning-flash.

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

Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

He also has energy who cannot be deprived of it.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

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

He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.