The youth of Germany were sufficiently enamoured, without the love-whining romances of Herr Goethe to pour oil on the fire." "Pardon me, sire, that I should presume to differ from you; but this book which your majesty condemns has not only produced a furor in Germany, but throughout Europe--throughout the world even.

That which public opinion sustains in such a marked manner cannot be wholly unworthy.

'Vox populi, vox dei,' is a true maxim in all ages." "It is not true!" cried the king.

"The old Roman maxim is not applicable to our effeminate, degraded people.

Nowadays, whoever flatters the people and glorifies their weaknesses, is a good fellow, and he is extolled to the skies.