So it is, if a man works hearty in the order of nature, he gets bread and he receives comfort, and whatever he touches breeds.

And it humbly appears to me, if that Prince was to labour on his throne, as I have laboured and wrought in my farm, he would find both an increase and a blessing.' 'I believe with you, sir,' Otto said; 'and yet the parallel is inexact.
For the farmer's life is natural and simple; but the prince's is both artificial and complicated.

It is easy to do right in the one, and exceedingly difficult not to do wrong in the other.

If your crop is blighted, you can take off your bonnet and say, "God's will be done"; but if the prince meets with a reverse, he may have to blame himself for the attempt.

And perhaps, if all the kings in Europe were to confine themselves to innocent amusement, the subjects would be the better off.' 'Ay,' said the young man Fritz, 'you are in the right of it there.