The German ruler really does feed and train the German as carefully as a gardener waters a flower.

But if the flower suddenly began to water the gardener, he would be much surprised.

So in Germany the people really are educated; but in France the people educates.

The French not only make up the State, but make the State; not only make it, but remake it.

In Germany the ruler is the artist, always painting the happy German like a portrait; in France the Frenchman is the artist, always painting and repainting France like a house.