Quotes from Johann Kaspar Lavater

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

Who recollects distinctly his past adventures, knows his destiny to come.

A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.

All belief that does not make us more happy, more free, more loving, more active, more calm, is, I fear, a mistaken and superstitious belief.

Receive no satisfaction for premeditated impertinence - forget it, forgive it - but keep him inexorably at a distance who of?fered it.

There is a manner of forgiveness so divine that you are ready to embrace the offender for having called it forth.

Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.

He who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.