Johann Kaspar Lavater Quotes About Simplicity

Quotes about: Simplicity

• When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Love, Simple, Rose

• Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and the happiness of others.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Heart, Simplicity, Suffering

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 246), 1895.

• Copiousness and simplicity, variety and unity, constitute real greatness of character.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Real, Character, Greatness

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

• The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  True Friend, Good Love, Simple

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