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.
Don't worry about things you cannot alter
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.
If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.
All punishments by which the human body might be maimed are barbarbarism.
I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.