Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes on Character
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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
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Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
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Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity.
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Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
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The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
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The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
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There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
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You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.