Much in Friedrich Wilhelm proved useful, beyond even his expectations.

As a Nation's HUSBAND he seeks his fellow among Kings, ancient and modern.

Happy the Nation which gets such a Husband, once in the half-thousand years.

The Nation, as foolish wives and Nations do, repines and grudges a good deal, its weak whims and will being thwarted very often; but it advances steadily, with consciousness or not, in the way of well-doing; and afterlong times the harvest of this diligent sowing becomes manifest to the Nation and to all Nations.
Strange as it sounds in the Republic of Letters, we are tempted to call Friedrich Wilhelm a man of genius;--genius fated and promoted to work in National Husbandry, not in writing Verses or three-volume Novels.

A silent genius.