The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.

I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.

If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman.

Don't worry about things you cannot alter

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at all.