277 Quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

Good-humor is always a success.

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.

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

As you treat your body, so your house, your domestics, your enemies, your friends. Dress is a table of your contents.