"I now see that you can use your eyes." Reynolds said he could go on retouching a picture forever.
The captain of a Nantucket whaler told the man at the wheel to steer by the North Star, but was awakened towards morning by a request for another star to steer by, as they had "sailed by the other." Stephen Girard was precision itself.

He did not allow those in his employ to deviate in the slightest degree from his iron-clad orders.
He believed that no great success is possible without the most rigid accuracy in everything.

He did not vary from a promise in the slightest degree.

People knew that his word was not "pretty good," but _absolutely_ good.

He left nothing to chance.