A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

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

it is better to inspire a reform than to enforce it.

I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.

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

I cannot live one day without love.

Your wits make others witty.