277 Quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater

The less you can enjoy, the poorer, the scantier yourself,--the more you can enjoy, the richer, the more vigorous.

Many very intelligent agreeable persons have warts on the forehead, not brown, nor very large, between the eyebrows, which have nothing in them offensive or disgusting. - But a large brown wart on the upper lip, especially when it is bristly, will be found in no person who is not defective in something essential, or at least remarkable for some conspicuous failing.

Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.

Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.

A sneer is often the sign of heartless malignity.

Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

God protects those he loves from worthless reading.

There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.