277 Quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater

He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.

A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.

Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.

Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.

Women are proverbially credulous.

Every man has his devilish minutes.

The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.

Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.