The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation. - James George Frazer

But once a fool always a fool, and the greater the power in his hands the more disastrous is likely to be the use he makes of it. The heaviest calamity in English history, the breach with America, might never have occurred if George the Third had not been an honest dullard.

The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough.

If their king is their god, he is or should be also their preserver; and if he will not preserve them, he must make room for another who will.