Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
Johann Kaspar LavaterThe generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.
Johann Kaspar LavaterHe whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.
Johann Kaspar LavaterHe knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
Johann Kaspar LavaterMany very intelligent agreeable persons have warts on the forehead, not brown, nor very large, between the eyebrows, which have nothing in them offensive or disgusting. - But a large brown wart on the upper lip, especially when it is bristly, will be found in no person who is not defective in something essential, or at least remarkable for some conspicuous failing.
Johann Kaspar Lavater