CHAPTER XII.
THOROUGHNESS.
Doing well depends upon doing completely.
-- PERSIAN PROVERB.
He who does well will always have patrons enough.
-- PLAUTUS.
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
-- EMERSON.
I hate a thing done by halves.

If it be right, do it boldly; if it be wrong, leave it undone.
-- GILPIN.
No two things differ more than Hurry and Dispatch.

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, Dispatch of a strong one.

* * * Like a turnstile, he (the weak man) is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything, but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are he only burns his fingers.
-- COLTON.
"Make me as good a hammer as you know how," said a carpenter to the blacksmith in a New York village before the first railroad was built; "six of us have come to work on the new church, and I've left mine at home." "As good a one as I know how ?" asked David Maydole, doubtfully, "but perhaps you don't want to pay for as good a one as I know how to make." "Yes, I do," said the carpenter, "I want a good hammer." It was indeed a good hammer that he received, the best, probably, that had ever been made.

By means of a longer hole than usual, David had wedged the handle in its place so that the head could not fly off, a wonderful improvement in the eyes of the carpenter, who boasted of his prize to his companions.