Johann Kaspar Lavater

"If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic."

"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 melanchol…"

"The discovery of truth by slow progressive meditation is wisdom. Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius."

"All great minds sympathize."

"A woman whose ruling passion is not vanity, is superior to any man of equal faculties."

"Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action to all eternity."

"He who has no taste for order will be often wrong in his judgements, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions."

"Who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius among those who study nature."