Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
He who reforms himself has done more toward reforming the public than a crowd of noisy, impotent patriots. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil — Johann Kaspar Lavater
If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Trust him little who praise all, him less who censures all and him least who is indifferent about all. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party-man. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius — Johann Kaspar Lavater
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Let none turn over books or scan the stars in quest of God who see him not in man. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; — Johann Kaspar Lavater
He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion. — Johann Kaspar Lavater