At the best, it was for Prussia; if it was anything else, it was tyranny.

She cringed to Napoleon when he beat her, and only joined in the chase when braver people had beaten him.

She professed to restore the Bourbons, and tried to rob them while she was restoring them.

For her own hand she would have wrecked the Restoration with the Revolution.

Alone in all that agony of peoples, she had not the star of one solitary ideal to light the night of her nihilism.
The French Revolution has a quality which all men feel; and which may be called a sudden antiquity.