4.  How different, Ortogrul, is thy condition, who art doomed to the perpetual torments of unsatisfied desire, and who hast no amusement in thy power that can withhold thee from thy own reflections!  They tell thee that thou art wise, but what does wisdom avail with poverty?  None will flatter the poor, and the wise have very little power of flattering themselves.  That man is surely the most wretched of the sons of wretchedness, who lives with his own faults and follies always before him, and who has none to reconcile him to himself by praise and veneration.  I have long sought content, and have not found it; I will from this moment endeavour to be rich.

5.  Full of his new resolution, he shut himself in his chamber for six months, to deliberate how he should grow rich; he sometimes proposed to offer himself as a counsellor to one of the kings of India, and sometimes resolved to dig for diamonds in the mines of Golconda.  One day, after some hours passed in violent fluctuation of opinion, sleep insensibly seized him in his chair; he dreamed that he was ranging a desert country in search of some one that might teach him to grow rich; and as he stood on the top of a hill shaded with cypress, in doubt whither to direct his steps, his father appeared on a sudden, standing before him.

6.  Ortogrul, said the old man, I know thy perplexity; listen to thy father; turn thine eye on the opposite mountain.  Ortogrul looked, and saw a torrent tumbling down the rocks, roaring with the noise of thunder, and scattering, its foam on the impending woods.  Now, said his father, behold the valley that lies between the hills.

7.  Ortogrul looked, and espied a little well, out of which issued a small rivulet.  Tell me now, said his father, dost thou wish for sudden affluence, that may pour upon thee like the mountain torrent, or for a slow and gradual increase, resembling the rill gliding from the well?  Let me be quickly rich, said Ortogrul; let the golden stream be quick and violent.

8.  Look round thee, said his father, once again.  Ortogrul looked, and perceived the channel of the torrent dry and dusty; but following the rivulet from the well, he traced it to a wide lake, which the supply, slow and constant, kept always full.  He waked, and determined to grow rich by silent profit, and persevering industry.

9.  Having sold his patrimony, he engaged in merchandise, and in twenty years purchased lands, on which he raised a house equal in sumptuousness to that of the Vizier, to which he invited all the ministers of pleasure, expecting to enjoy all the felicity which he had imagined riches able to afford.  Leisure soon made him weary of himself, and he longed to be persuaded that he was great and happy.  He was courteous and liberal; he gave all that approached him hopes of pleasing him, and all who should please him, hopes of being rewarded.  Every art of praise was tried, and every source of adulatory fiction was exhausted.