277 Quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

He who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God.

The discovery of truth by slow, progressive meditation is talent.

He only is great who has the habits of greatness; who, after performing what none in ten thousand could accomplish, passes on like Samson, and "tells neither father nor mother of it."

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.

To realize that you were mistaken, is just the acknowledgment, that you are wiser today than you were yesterday.