Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.
Johann Kaspar LavaterHe is incapable of a truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.
Johann Kaspar LavaterAn entirely honest man, in the severe sense of the word, exists no more than an entirely dishonest knave: the best and the worst are only approximations of those qualities. Who are those that never contradict themselves? yet honesty never contradicts itself: Who are those that always contradict themselves? yet knavery is mere self-contradiction. Thus the knowledge of man determines not the things themselves, but their proportions, the quanโฃtum of congruities and incongruities.
Johann Kaspar Lavater