277 Quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

Humility with energy is often mistaken for pride.

The more uniform a man's voice, step, manner of conversation, handwriting--the more quiet, uniform, settled, his actions, his character.

Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity.

Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and the happiness of others.

Know in the first place, that mankind agree in essence, as they do in limbs and senses.

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent; still less how to act with vigor and decision. Who hastens to the end is silent; loudness is impotence.

You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.