277 Quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.

Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.

He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack; and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.

The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.

Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world.

True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

He who reforms himself has done more towards reforming the public than a crowd or noisy, impotent patriots.

The conscience is more wise than science.