I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.
bad news travels faster than good.
All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.
[On Peter III:] He did not have a bad heart; but a weak man usually has not.
Power without a nation's confidence is nothing.
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.