Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.
All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.
The most sure, but at the same time the most difficult expedient to mend the morals of the people, is a perfect system of education.