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

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
Johann Kaspar Lavater