Of course, this saloon is crowded with amateurs, and the Prussians and English are not the least ardent votaries of the Goddess of Paphos; many a vanquished victor sinks oppressed with wine and love on the breast of a Dalilah: this last comparison suggests itself to me from the immense quantity of hair worn by the Prussians, as if their strength, like that of Samson's, depended on their chevelure.

The Prussians are a serious-minded race and never more serious than when they make war, as all the world now knows.

The Prussians in the time of Frederic were a sincere, patriotic, and religious people.

The Prussian is a Spartan, a natural brute, but brutal to himself as well as to others, capable of extremes of self-denial and self-discipline.

If all intelligent peoples are Germans, then Prussians are only the least intelligent Germans.

Before the end of January, 1741, the Prussians were masters of Silesia.

I urged that the Prussian is a spiritual Barbarian, because he is not bound by his own past, any more than a man in a dream.