Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

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

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed.

He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.