"For if we seek the first origin and ultimate foundation of all right and all justice, we must seek it in God alone, who is the eternal Arbiter of the world of states and nations as well as of individuals, and who well knows how to requite every great political injustice on His appointed day of retribution, to visit it with unexpected punishment, and to reduce it to its own nothingness by an often fearful award . But so soon as man, or any earthly power, presumes to lay its hand upon this work—to propose to itself absolute justice, to judge and regulate all things by that standard, and to model the world in conformity to it—the consequence is a total revolution in all the relations of society."—Schlegel.
"It was the discovery of Jesus Christ that gave John Müller, the prince of modern historians, his knowledge of history. 'The Gospel,' he says, is the fulfilment of all hopes, the finishing-point of all philosophy, the explanation of all revolutions, the key to all the apparent contradictions of the physical and moral world.'"—D'Aubigné.
"History has been robbed of her divine parent, and now, an illegitimate child, a bold adventuress, she roams the world, not well knowing whence she comes or whither she goes."—Id.
"In the earlier ages a national spirit has had an apparent influence in politics and the formation of the state. But in none has it wrought with the conscious energy of this age. Clearly discerned as the guiding-star of coming political life, appears the highest conception of humanity."—Geschichte des Allgemeinen Statsrechts und der Politik.
"Immediately were brought by Mercury three large volumes in folio, containing memoirs of all things past, present, and to come. The clasps were of silver, double gilt, the covers of celestial turkey leather, and the paper such as here on earth might pass almost for vellum. Jupiter, having silently read the decree, would communicate the import to none, but presently shut up the book."—Swift.
"The people had now to see tyranny naked. That foul Duessa was stripped of her gorgeous ornaments."—Macaulay.
"The language of passion, the language of sarcasm, the language of satire, is not on such occasions Christian language; it is not the language of a judge."—Sydney Smith.
"He humbly gave the modern generals to understand that he conceived, with great submission, they were all a pack of rogues and fools and confounded loggerheads and illiterate whelps."—Swift.
"Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement."—Beaconsfield.
