277 Quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater

Sensibility is the power of woman.

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Conscience is wiser than science.

Wisdom is the repose of the mind.

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.

The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.

He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.