They were usually sold without any warrant of excellence, the word "Maydole" stamped on the head being universally considered a guaranty of the best article the world could produce.

Character is power, and is the best advertisement in the world.
"Yes," said he one day to the late James Parton, who told this story, "I have made hammers in this little village for twenty-eight years." "Well," replied the great historian, "by this time you ought to make a pretty good hammer." "No, I can't," was the reply, "I can't make a pretty good hammer.

I make the best hammer that's made.

My only care is to make a perfect hammer.
If folks don't want to pay me what they're worth, they're welcome to buy cheaper ones somewhere else.

My wants are few, and I'm ready any time to go back to my blacksmith's shop, where I worked forty years ago, before I thought of making hammers.