Your wits make others witty.
If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.
I cannot live one day without love.
Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.