The public seldom forgive twice.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who in the same given time can produce more than others has vigor; who can produce more and better, has talents; who can produce what none else can, has genius.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
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

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
Johann Kaspar Lavater