277 Quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.

Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.

Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossible that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.

As your enemies and your friends, so are you

There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.

The horse-laugh indicates brutality of character.

Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.

The most stormy ebullitions of passion, from blasphemy to murder, are less terrific than one single act of cool villainy.