The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

- 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

He also has energy who cannot be deprived of it.

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

Avoid the eye that discovers with rapidity the bad, and is slow to see the good.

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

The countenance is more eloquent than the tongue.

- Johann Kaspar Lavater